Dan Track wrote: > Yep the host file belongs to dan. > > > Here's the output of setting the display manually. I'm using putty. Where did PuTTY come in? > export DISPLAY=localhost:10 [dan@dan ~]$ xlogo > Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server > Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 data did not match > Error: Can't open display: localhost:10 Looks to me like it is working, you just have some X authentication stuff incorrect. What are you using for an X server? -- William Hooper