Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I rebuilt an Ubuntu 9.10 server this past week, ripping off VMware and replacing it with VirtualBox 3.1.2. Setting up VirtualBox as a headless server was very easy with VBoxTool. However, I ran into a problem that I was unable to connect using remote desktop (rdesktop) as any user but the user that [...]

Here’s the scenario:
You ssh to a remote server with your login and either sudo or su to another user to run some application that uses a X Windows front end.  There is a firewall between your desktop and the remote server that allows only ssh connections (port 22).  When you run into the error “Xlib: [...]