Re: ssh tunneling with Kontact?

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On Sunday 25 October 2009 at 9:11 pm, r bartlett penned
about "Re: [kdepim-users] ssh tunneling with Kontact?"

> >In your second terminal, you can login directly to `computer-c' as
> >follows:
> 
> >   ssh -p 8888 localhost
>
> This is very much what I was hoping for!  I could log in fine, but
> Kontact isn't running (nor xclock).  It seems to be "Can't open
> display" in both.  Do I need to add the -X option somewhere?

Oops, sorry, yes, please type `ssh -X -p 8888 localhost' 

> I am simply typing "kontact" at the computer-c command line...should
> I be typing something else? 

No, the `-X' should set everything up properly.  ;)

> Thanks again for your time helping with this.

You're welcome.

I'm heading to bed (long day) so I won't be answering anything until
tomorrow.  I hope that's okay.

Cheers,
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