bash-3.2$ sudo su - oracle and add the original users MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE to xauth. Take note of that line as you need it later.

Go back to previous user and check what the xauth list says. That's the typical use case but if you change to another user and try the same command you get error 'MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 data did not match'. bash-3.2$ xeyes & X11 forwarding as other user On the remote machine check that the X11 forwarding works with e.g. Click Save and then Open the SSH connection to your remote host. Add to the 'X display location' field: localhost:0.0Ĭhoose Session in the Category list and add your Linux hostname and select SSH.Check X11 forwarding: Enable X11 forwarding.Next open Putty and in the Category list go to Mine says 'Xming Server:0.0' so for PuTTY settings we get '0.0'. You also need program like PuTTY or FuTTY to create the remote connection.Īfter you have Xming installed and started check what the icon says on the taskbar. There are different tools to do X11 forwarding on Windows but Xming is small, fast and simple software for X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows. Using Xming for X11 forwarding on Windows Here we concentrate on Windows and use Xming and PuTTY for those tasks. XQuartz and on Windows you need two pieces of software: a secure shell program (ssh) to establish the remote connection and an X Server to handle the local display. Linux supports X Forwarding with no extra software, on OS X you need e.g. Usually I prefer to do thing directly from the Linux terminal but sometimes there is a need for remote graphical tools and X11 forwarding.

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