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Re: Displayng remote clients


| "In an X terminal type /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost remote_hostname_or_ip_address"
| and this is ok.

Weeh :-)

| "In an X terminal type /usr/bin/telnet remote_hostname_or_ip_address. Use
| the explicit path to ensure that Cygwin's telnet is run instead of
| Microsoft's telnet; Microsoft's telnet will crash on startup when run from
| Cygwin/XFree86".. 
| but I don't have the /usr/bin directory or a telnet

Hmm you should have a /usr/bin, or hmm /usr/X11R6 doesn't sound like
cygwin, which platform is that? meanwhile microsoft telnet should be
ok I think.. 


| file and I can't set DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0
| If a try to use the microsoft telnet and I type:
|
|> setenv DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0,
|
| I have:
|> Error: Can't open display: windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0=

Well "windows_hostname_or_ip_address" is supposed to be the name or IP
of the machine you run the x-server on, not
"windows_hostname_or_ip_address".

        /Andy

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