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I'm able to connect using Rexec with X11 forwarding from a Windows PC using Mocha, however I need to find a method of achieving the same from a Mac.

I doubt it makes any difference, but the remote host runs VMS.

Can anyone offer any pointers to get me up and running?

CW Holeman II
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Well I'm not familiar with Rexec, but if it's a standard x11 program then this should hopefully work.

First you'll need to install X11 on your Mac. I don't think there's a stand alone installer available for download, but you should be able to install it from your Mac OS X Installation disk. Should say something like Optional Extras.

I personally just install the full Xcode developer tools package which installs a bunch of required software for installing software from source code.

Next you'll need to to ssh to the box that will be running the X11 app. Open Terminal (in Application > Utilities) and run the ssh command with the -Y flag (I used -Y instead of -X for security reasons. If this doesn't seem to work you can use ssh -X instead, but it's not recommended. See the man page on ssh.):

ssh -Y username@hostname

Once logged in you can run the app from the command line (if it's in your $PATH):

./rexec

Hopefully that's all you need to do. You might have better luck doing those two commands from xterm (instead of Terminal). For more information on X11 forwarding from/to a Mac check out Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X from Apple's website.

Eric Boehs
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