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Requesting X11 Forwarding Feature
Looking through the docs I see:
The following configuration options are not available in the OpenSSH version that ships in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809:
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X11DisplayOffset
X11Forwarding
X11UseLocalhost
XAuthLocation
But I can't see why these features can't be implemented. I can successfully forward X11 using PuTTY or Ubuntu on WLS with Xming. So why can't I achieve this with OpenSSH on PowerShell?
X11 forwarding is incredibly important to my work and whenever I need it I find myself enabling WLS or switching to a Linux distro, which is pretty inconvenient when I need Windows. I'm sure I'm not the only user with this issue.
I've tried a few different configurations to get this working but I always get the same errors:
*WARNING* X Window Display Initialization failure
*WARNING* (DISPLAY "<not defined>")
Things I've tried:
set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1
ssh -Y example@192.168.1.1
ssh -X example@192.168.1.1
etc...
I've tried various other options as well like disabling X11 authentication as I've come back to try and solve this issue several times on my end.
If there is a way to configure OpenSSH to work with Xming or VcXsrv please add it to the docs.
"OpenSSH for Windows" version
8.0.0.0
Server OperatingSystem
CentOS release 5.11 (Final)
Client OperatingSystem
Windows 10 Pro