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Re: using xfree86 4.4.0 from remote host
- From: nirus <nirus at tsn dot cc>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 04:37:50 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: using xfree86 4.4.0 from remote host
- References: <409ECE16.7010703@udm.ru>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> I am currently trying to use XFree86/cygwin 4.4.0. Maybe I would have
> been more successful with cygwin stuff?
> The problem is that I can't use the X server from the remote host. I
> have tried "xhost +<remoteIP>" and "xhost +" on the windows machine
> running xfree86. Both succeeded, but the remote says the same thing as
> before -
> Xlib: connection to "10.0.5.1:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
This has to do with your SSH client supporting X11 Forwarding. The companies
that I do work for quite often use a program called 'Erics Telnet' which works
just fine until you try and use it with Cygwin/X then it returns the error
displayed above.
However as soon as I use Putty...with X11 forwarding set correctly...it works
like a gem