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Re: general question
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:35:08 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: general question
- References: <OFFCA423B7.12D0F219-ON86256F3A.0051F300@Fairfax-it.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 Charles_Kendall@Fairfax-it.com wrote:
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> Wow Cygwin is so much easier to install now...thanks !!
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> One thing I'm stuck on.....I can get Xwindows up on my XP desktop and
> connect to all my unix servers but I haven't figured out how to export the
> DISPLAY to my machine (and do a xhost + ) so that I can start up an
> Xwindows gui (like xclock) on one of my unix servers and have it show up on
> my desktop.
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> connection refused by server
> No protocal specified
does xterm -display windowsip:0.0 work?
> I'm starting Cygwin by doing a XWin.exe -query ip address (of one of my
> unix servers).
Do you get the login screen from the server? Have you tried the -from <windows ip>
parameter? This is sometimes required if you have more than one network interface
(even ppp dialup interfaces count)
bye
ago
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