On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Linda Walsh wrote: > Yes I've read the FAQ -- it doesn't help. Is says: > > > The problem is most likely a wrong DNS (Network name resolution). Make sure > your windows host has a hostname which is valid from linux too and an IP > address which linux can resolve to that hostname. > --- > What DNS resolution? > > If you add a line > > 192.168.26.1 myhost > > to /etc/hosts on the XDMCP server with the IP address and the hostname of your > windows host the name resolution should work. > XDMCP server? I'm not trying to connect to an XDMP server. > > I'm trying to open > 'xosview&' > on a remote host with DISPLAY=mycywin-window-machine:0.0 > (or machine:0), neither work. > Yes I export the variable on the remote machine or I wouldn't be getting > the rejected message in my local cygwin XWin /var/log/XWin.0.log file. > > It =works= if I let it connect through my 'ssh' connection but that's really > connecting back to ssh on the cygwin machine and connecting, AFAIK, > via the local socket or local host. > > I wanted to try connecting NOT through my ssh connection so I could close the > ssh connection and have the remote xosview continue running. > > Thanks for ideas... > Linda >
Have you added the client to your X server's acl? See xhost(1) Also, running your X client in the background does not disconnect it from the terminal from which you launched it. If you close the terminal, the client app will die. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
