[nflug] ssh/cygwin/remote X question

[Anthony J. Mirabella]

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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