Remote X through a proxy

[Tony Hammitt]

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 :-)

Hope this helps,

    Tony

----- 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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