CentOS - Aug 2010 - Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter
what I try it complains about the display:

?dcl:~$ xhost + localhost
localhost being added to access control list
?dcl:~$ ssh -X user at ip.address
[user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
[user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0
cannot open display: 0:0
Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line
options.
[user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$

Googling the situation it looks like I've covered all the steps:
enabling remote X, X forwarding, display export and telling Nautilus
which display to use. Any other ideas? Thanks!


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Dotan Cohen

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http://what-is-what.com

Hi Dotan,

> I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter
> what I try it complains about the display:
> 
> ?dcl:~$ xhost + localhost
> localhost being added to access control list
> ?dcl:~$ ssh -X user at ip.address
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0
> cannot open display: 0:0
> Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line
> options.
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$
> 
> Googling the situation it looks like I've covered all the steps:
> enabling remote X, X forwarding, display export and telling Nautilus
> which display to use. Any other ideas? Thanks!
Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf

Rgds

Simon

Dotan,

Do not do these steps:

On 6 August 2010 09:24, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
wrote:
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0
> cannot open display: 0:0
When you connect with sssh -X, it will create the tunnel and assign a
DISPLAY variable.
hakan at hakan-laptop:10:29:51:~$ ssh -X hobbit
Last login: Thu Aug  5 09:45:59 2010 from 10.15.1.99
more cowbells!
 _________________________________________
/ It is impossible to defend perfectly    \
| against the attack of those who want to |
\ die.                                    /
 -----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
[hakan at hobbit ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

and then you can run Nautilus w/o a problem, with no options necessary.

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Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org

2010/8/6 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter
> what I try it complains about the display:
>
> ?dcl:~$ xhost + localhost
> localhost being added to access control list
> ?dcl:~$ ssh -X user at ip.address
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0
> cannot open display: 0:0
> Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line
options.
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$
>
> Googling the situation it looks like I've covered all the steps:
> enabling remote X, X forwarding, display export and telling Nautilus
> which display to use. Any other ideas? Thanks!
install xorg-x11-xauth on server and then just ssh -X user at ip

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Eero