John Morrison wrote: [snip] > Hi, > I have a similar problem. > On my remote machine $DISPLAY set as localhost:10.0 > When i do ssh -X (or Y) user@remote_machine and try to run xclock, for > example, i get the following error: > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6010: Name > or service not known Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 That sounds more like the issue with the /etc/hosts file. -- William Hooper