NEdit: Can't open display

[wstran]

Greetings,

I have a Linux server with Redhat Enterprise 4 and two workstations, PC1 with Redhat Linux 9 and PC2 with Redhat Enterprise 4. When I do the following on both of my workstations:

xhost +
ssh PC1 (or PC2)
export DISPLAY=PC1:0.0 (or PC2:0.0)

then I want to load a graphical text editor, e.g. nedit, the PC1 (RH9) displays the nedit screen without any error; however, the PC2 (RHEL4) gives me an error:

nedit: the current locale is utf8 (en_US.UTF-8)
nedit: changed locale to non-utf8 (en_US)
NEdit: Can't open display

It's weird that both ssh to the same Linux server but one works and the other doesn't. I guess there's some more things that I need to do to make the RHEL4 box works. Please help, thanks.

 

[wstran]

Sorry I just found an error in my post:

ssh PC1 (or PC2) should be ssh RHEL4-server

 

[ZaSter]

Do a "man ssh" to learn about the "-X" or "-x" option. Using that option, you should be able to ssh to the host and NOT have to set the DISPLAY because ssh does that for you.

 

[wstran]

Thanks ZaSter but even I run the ssh -X hostname, I still got the same errors.

 

[ZaSter]

In that case, does "ssh -Y" work any better?

 

[wstran]

No, it did not work either. Thanks!