On Thu, 13 May 2004, Jeff Vian wrote: > I have done some trying to get X forwarding running via ssh. > > I use cygwin to log in from my work pc via ssh to my linux box but as > yet have been unable to get the X forwarding to cooperate even after > trying all the steps listed on the various sites I found with google. > There is no firewall at issue here. I must be missing something subtle, > but am at a loss as to what. > > Can you provide any pointers/instructions on how you made this work > properly. # startup the X server bash# startxwin.sh # make sure display is set correctly - or use the xterm that startxwin.sh started (xterm)# ssh -X remotemachine xterm Looks like cygwin is setup to use '127.0.0.1:0' by default instead of ':0' Satish
