using ssh -Y on Vista

[Malgorzata Peszynska <mpesz at math dot oregonstate dot edu>]

Hello,

(I sent this message originally to cygwin-xfree but somebody there 
suggested I should resend here).

I am having a problem with X-windows forwarding from a fresh installation 
of cygwin and X on Longhorn Vista (cygcheck.out attached). Basically, when 
I do

ssh -vv -Y me@linuxserver

I get

debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth  list :0.0 2>/dev/null

(and the xterm hangs).

Here is what I tried having read all the postings I could find. Still no luck.

1. I've reinstalled Cygwin thrice completely from scratch including removing 
all files, changing permissions to folders as was suggested in some 
posts etc.

2. My Firewall and User Account Control are disabled. My Norton is 
UN-installed.   I renamed setup.exe to some other name. I am using 
Compatibility with WinXpSP2 and run the setup As Administrator.

3. I followed suggestions to rebaseall.

4. During install I pushed manually the postinstall script 
postinstall/post-texmf.sh  (killed and executed from bash; probably no 
connection though but I will mention that I fixed 'w' permissions to some 
folders etc.).

Now: My /usr/X11/bin/startx works fine, I can fork xterms  as usual.
I can ssh to me@linuxserver just fine, but I just can NOT do XWindows 
forwarding as in using ssh -vv -Y ****. My three other installations of 
cygwin-X that I have on Win2K and WinXP have worked nicely for the last few 
years and still do including  ssh -Y me@linuxserver.
So this is likely not a problem on my  linuxserver side ... ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated ... my apology if I did not find just the 
*right* posting that could help solve this problem ....  Thanks, Malgo

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