In this case, it is not needed, because ssh is considered a local X app and already has privledges (ssh provides the proxy service via tunneling so it remains secure) Jay On Friday 28 March 2003 9:00 am, Simeon Johnston wrote: > Also make sure that xhost is allowing connections. > My install of Cygwin defaulted to denying all connections, which it > should do. > > sim > > > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:16 am, Erik Anderson wrote: > > > Florin Iucha wrote: > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ > > > > > > I've tried to use cygwin for this before, but have never > > > > had success. > > > > > Is there a trick to getting the cygwin X server to accept > > > > remote X11? > > > > Start up X. Then in a terminal make sure the display is set > > right (echo > > $DISPLAY). Then you should be able to do ssh -X user at host > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list