Re: Problems with CORBA and SSH

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Graham ,

> We eventually got to the bottom of this one.
> 
> The name service, as you say, is stored in the X server properties,
> which means the exact same IOR information is given to Gnome apps
> running on both the local and the remote machines. By default however,
> ORBit is configured by GNOME to use UNIX sockets and not TCP. As a
> result, attempts to connect to ORBit on the remote machine cause an
> attempt to connect to a UNIX socket that does not exist - the connection
> fails and the cryptic error message results.

Ok, once again I forgot about this. 

> A workaround is to switch from UNIX socket support to TCP support, but
> this has security issues and is very firewall unfriendly.
> 
> The correct solution is to make SSH aware of CORBA connections and have
> them forwarded automatically as X11 connections are now.
> 
> In theory, this should just mean that SSH should look for the
> GNOME_NAME_SERVER property in the X config, and then forward the socket
> it finds there to the remote machine from the local machine. Will this
> work?

Probably not, because the connection to the name-server is just for
bootstrapping. After that, other connections will be needed.... 

Bye,
Sebastian
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