[nflug] ssh/cygwin/remote X question

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Anthony J. Mirabella wrote:
> Stephen Burke wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> On the XP side of things, I have installed cygwin, which I was hoping
>> would serve as my xserver there. IT has no trouble ssh-ing into this
>> box, but when I try to do DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0 (as well as x.x.x.x:0.0),
>> export DISPLAY, etc. I get "Could not open display x.x.x.x:0", which is
>> the error I was getting on BLAG before I opened a certain port in the
>> system firewall and got it to work at least as root. I am not sure about
>> the XP firewall thing, and everything I've found has been talking about
>> SP2 tweaks, and I have been avoiding THAT thing like the plague. Any
>> idea how I can poke a hole for this to work or even if cygwin is what I
>> want to use for this?
>>     
>
> If you're moving X over ssh you should use the tunnel that is setup by
> ssh's X forwarding.  That'll probably mean setting the display on the
> machine running the X clients to localhost:10.
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In case you don't know, to pass X over the newer ssh, you need to give 
it the -X option.
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