Re: Running remote programs locally

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Unless you *really* know what you are doing, in which case you are on 
your own, then you are doing the wrong thing with ssh and X clients. 
The proper procedure is described in the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh

Harold

Andrew Clarke wrote:

> Hi.  I'm new to cygwin although I've been using Unix/Linux on and off 
> for several years.  I have the full cygwin-xfree package loaded and I'm 
> trying to ssh into my Linux computer and run applications locally.  So, 
> this is the process I go through:
>
> Start bash shell
> Run 'xwin &'
> When it comes up, I 'ssh linuxcomputer' and enter my password
> Through vncserver at my root prompt of my linux computer, I type 'xhost 
> +windowscomputer'.  I did the same with my windows computer's IP address 
> just to be sure.
>  >From the xwin ssh window to my linux computer, I type something simple 
> like 'xterm -display windowscomputer:0' and I get the following error:
>
> Xlib: Connection to "windowscomputer:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> I think I got xterm to work once a few days ago but since I don't have 
> it working now I'm not even sure about that.  I have never been able to 
> get anything like Mozilla or Evolution to run though.
>
> This is supposed to work, right?  Does anybody have any ideas about what 
> I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> - Andrew Clarke.