Remote X display

[jrh]

Well I'm not sure if this should go in the networking or X11 forum, but it seems likely that help might come from this forum. I'm having trouble displaying X-windows from a remote machine to my mac -- here is how I'm set up:

I have an airport base station that goes to a DSL modem with a fixed IP address, the computers at home are networked locally using the airport as a local DNS server (so behind the base station, everything is 10.0.1.x).

I can ssh to computers at work just fine, but I don't know how to tell it where to send a display to -- I can do a
setenv DISPLAY my.airport.ip.address, but that goes to the base station, not my computer.

Is there a simple way to export my work display to my computer at home?

thanks,
jrh

 

[symphonix]

Open X11 on your mac. In the terminal in X11 (not the Terminal.app one) type:

ssh -X user@hostaddress

after you've entered your password and so on, this should automatically forward the X11 system over the ssh link.