Difference between installing Xfree-4.2.0 using setup and install.sh

[Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>]

Thank you for shedding light on the question. The problem is indeed with the 
.Xauthority file. I created a .Xauthority file with my recent install
using setup. I had tried doing the same earlier when I did the installation
using install.sh, but it turned out that the .Xauthority file was never 
created. If I delete the .Xauthority file from my recent install, I am able
to ssh to a remote host and display results, just as before.

Now I decided to try xauth a bit further. I found interestingly that if I
just ran the startx script from my linux box on cygwin Xfree-4.2.0, I could
create succesfully a .Xauthority file, start the X server, and display
results from a remote host via ssh, without adding xhost +localhost to my
.xinitrc file. In other words, the same behaviour as starting the X server
on linux is now obtained. I guess it works because mcookie is now part of
cygutils. I hope my experience may be useful to others who want to set up
the .Xauthority file.

Raymond