<p dir="ltr">My recommendation: ditch X forwarding and switch to Xvnc. It is a lot easier to deal with since you only need to tunnel one port.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Other option: install openvpn on the edge of your lab network. It is easy and gives you wide open access to the lab. Very convenient.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mark</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 2, 2014 4:32 PM, "Jonathan Jesse" <<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Been awhile since I've asked a question, hope it makes sense...<div><br></div><div>I have a CentOS box that I need to use a graphical session on. It is in my lab which is hosted by a service provider. I have the ability to configure things so I can connect via SSH to the server, but having problems with the X Forwarding part of things.</div><div><br></div><div>When I SSH to the box I connect to port 9417 which is then forwarded to by CentOS server in my lab. I also have a Windows box in the lab and can connect without a problem via XMing and putty to get the graphical interface I need to do the troubleshooting/install without any issues.</div><div>On my Windows box (not in the lab) I can't connect via XMing and forward the X session over. In putty I connect fine via <a href="http://server.servname.com" target="_blank">server.servname.com</a> and change the port to 9417.</div><div><br></div><div>What I'm thinking is there might be some config file or command line switch I need to pass to XMing? Any ideas or help out there?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div></div>
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