I have setup X desktop and want to connect to the X server through ssh. As you know ssh provides X forwarding which is very useful feature and used a lot of system administrators.
Try To Connect Ssh X Forwarding
We will try to connect X service of remote ssh server by providing -X parameter.
1 | $ ssh -X ubu1 |
OR
1 | $ nautilus |
We get an error like “Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused” or “/usr/bin/xauth: /home/ismail/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored”
Change Ownership Of Xauthority
We will change Xauthority file ownerhsip because it will used by the current user to read and write.
1 | $ sudo chown ismail:ismail .Xauthority |
Check Disk If It Is Full
One of the root cause of a lot of problems is fulling disk. It is hidden problem and generally do not show himself. We should all ways count this option for troubleshot.
1 | $ df -lh |
As we can see in the third line of output our root path have enough free space to run X
Check Ssh Server X Forwarding Setting
Ssh server configuration have a line X11Forwarding which enables or disable X11 forwarding. It may be disabled because of security reasons.
1 | $ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep X11Forwarding |
Check Ssh Client ForwardX11 Setting
The client side of ssh configuration also includes X11 forwarding. It shouldn’t be disabled or explicitly enabled like below.
1 | $ cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config | grep ForwardX11 |
We should uncomment line ForwardX11 no and change to yes.
