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List:       cygwin-xfree
Subject:    RE: X windows display problem
From:       "Pille Geert (bkarnd)" <geert.pille () vandemoortele ! com>
Date:       2002-09-02 7:54:11
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Hallo Meredith,

I lost a couple of days on the same problem because my client's hostname was
"GHP-VP6", and so DISPLAY on the client side was "GHP-VP6:0.0".

When I replace DISPLAY's value by simply ":0.0", before ssh'ing to a host,
all (and most importantly: X) was well.

I haven't checked if it was the special (?) character "-" that caused the
problem, I used to have underscores in all my hostnames until I found out
that Apache refused to run on a host called GHP_something (there is an RFC
saying which characters are allowed).

Just in case  (your client's hostname isn't Jules)

Geert

-----Original Message-----
From: Meredith Finkelstein [mailto:meredith@www.honeybeerobotics.com]
Sent: vrijdag 30 augustus 2002 20:42
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: X windows display problem


Hi 
I have found some related posts in the archives, but nothing that seems to 
solve my problem, which is: 

I start startxwin.sh from my client (which runs windows2000) (I have tried 
both cygwin shell and cmd)
then i open up an ssh connection (ssh -X -l username hostname) to my host 
computer which is running red hat 7.3.  The sshd config file has 
X11Forwarding turned on 

when i try to open xterm, xeyes, anything  - i get the following error: 

xterm Xt error: Can't open display:

this happens no matter which window i am sshing from - cmd, cygwin,
xwindows.
and /tmp/XWin.log displays no error messages

Any suggestions? 
Thanks,
Meredith




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