Remote X through a proxy

[Gerald Combs]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tony Hammitt wrote:

> SSH is made for things like this.  You set up the SSH login, then run the SSH
> agent script (a bit fuzzy on the details here, but the SSH manpages are pretty
> good) and then all of your communications go over the SSH tunnel, so only
> one port needs to be opened.  This of course assumes that SSH will run on
> windows2000, which it may not.  I don't know.  If you were running Linux
> as your desktop, you'd be all set (couldn't resist the jab, sorry :-)

A list of Windows ssh clients can be found at
http://www.freessh.org/windows.html.  I've had good luck with the
SecureCRT and TTSSH clients on Windows, but I've never tried to tunnel X
on them. 

Actually, it looks like the ssh client that comes with Cygwin works.  I
just opened a Cygwin shell, defined DISPLAY, and ran 'ssh -o
ForwardX11=yes <host>'.  It appears to have set up the tunnel correctly. I
don't have an X server installed on my NT box, so I can't test any
further.  Cygwin can be found at http://www.cygwin.com/.

> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>     Tony
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Persky, Ken <Ken.Persky at dsionline.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:40 AM
> Subject: Remote X through a proxy
> 
> 
> > I am wondering if there is anyway to run a remote X application through a
> > proxy.  Here's the situation...
> > the remote box is actually an AIX box and I am trying to connect my win2000
> > client, which is behind a firewall and uses a proxy server to it.  I have
> > opened the default X port (6000), for the connection, but I am not sure how
> > to handle the proxy.  I was trying to do this by setting the display
> > environment variable on my aix account to the ip:disp number of my win2000
> > client, which has a n X server running on it, but I realized that wouldn't
> > make it through the proxy.  I am looking for an idea or a suggestion which I
> > can look into and try to implement, or if its not possible please tell me so
> > I will stop pounding my head against a wall:)
> > Thanks 
> > Ken Persky
> > 
> > 
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