# Net/ssh question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556 "2006-09-30T02:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/1 "2006-09-30T02:28:52Z")
Can I use net/ssh to connect to a remote server, start a X application, and have the application’s display show up on my computer? Joe ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/2 "2006-09-30T02:32:52Z")
On 30/09/06 Joe Van D. said: > Can I use net/ssh to connect to a remote server, start a X > application, and have the application’s display show up on my > computer? Can it use X portforwarding? If so, then yes, if you’re running a local X server. Mike ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/3 "2006-09-30T02:42:53Z")
On 9/29/06, Michael P. Soulier [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 30/09/06 Joe Van D. said: > > > Can I use net/ssh to connect to a remote server, start a X > > application, and have the application’s display show up on my > > computer? > > Can it use X portforwarding? If so, then yes, if you’re running a local X > server. I don’t know if it can or not. 🙂 Why I’m asking. ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/4 "2006-09-30T04:57:00Z")
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Joe Van D. wrote: > Can I use net/ssh to connect to a remote server, start a X > application, and have the application’s display show up on my > computer? > > Joe -a ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/5 "2006-10-02T00:57:47Z")
On 9/29/06, Paul L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > server. > > > > I don’t know if it can or not. 🙂 Why I’m asking. > > The answer depends on whether the remote and local machines are properly > configured Yes > both running the same version of X windows Yes > and whether the SSH connection between the local and remote machines is made with the appropriate options. My question is whether net/ssh supports these appropriate options, and whether an application’s display can be sent over an opened ssh channel. ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-ssh-question/70556/6 "2006-09-30T03:26:54Z")
Joe Van D. wrote: > I don’t know if it can or not. 🙂 Why I’m asking. > The answer depends on whether the remote and local machines are properly > configured, both running the same version of X windows, and whether the > SSH > connection between the local and remote machines is made with the > appropriate options. But this sort of SSH connection requires so much cooperation between the local and remote X windows environments that it is generally better carried out directly, not by way of Ruby.