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Re: XWin and xauth
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "Rayman, Louis" <louis dot rayman at lehman dot com>
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:08:57 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: XWin and xauth
- References: <E8AF6CAA5D7961468F411E8AD6E3EB7B01550D85@nycmgexm004.leh.lbcorp.lehman.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rayman, Louis wrote:
> I'm having the weirdest time getting XWin to grant my solaris/linux login
> display rights.
>
> first, my host PC translates its own name differently than the unix machines
> do, so I get something like this:
> cygin$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.leh.lbcorp.lehman.com:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
>
> but:
>
> solaris$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
> solaris$ echo $DISPLAY
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
> solaris$ xterm
> Xlib: connection to "nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
>
>
> then, if by some miracle I get past that, after a certain amount of time,
> the connection stop working, even if I already have an xterm running, I
> can't start another!!?!
>
> what's a poor boy to do?
Please check
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/bin/view/Main/CygwinXTroubleShooting#Cygwin_X_reports_AUDIT_client_1_
the symptoms are a bit different but the main problem is the same (wrong name translation)
bye
ago
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