Instead of bothering with the nolisten option and running $ ssh centos6
Just do this: $ ssh -Y centos6 without touching the xserver option. That's what Jon meant. I also stumbled upon this awhile back and pulled my hair(from whereever I still got them). On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jon TURNEY <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/12/2014 18:31, Don Webster wrote: >> >> I needed to upgrade gs to gs 9.15, so I ran setup yesterday. It >> wanted to update a whole bunch of stuff, including X. OK, fine, I >> hadn't updated cygwin in quite a while, and I had other stuff to do. >> >> After the upgrade, I can't display remote xterms. OK, my old X >> shortcut didn't work, but I found "XWin Server" and pinned it to my >> task bar. I launch that and I have the X server running, and a local >> xterm pops up. I ssh into my linux server, and run my xterm, and get >> "can't open display". I did these steps. >> >> - turned off my Windows Firewall (I am on a safe, local network). - >> launched XWin Server. >> >> In the xterm that popped up: >> dcw@dcwdt02 ~ >> $ xhost + >> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host >> >> dcw@dcwdt02 ~ >> $ ssh centos6 >> Last login: Wed Dec 10 16:31:16 2014 from dcwdt02 >> centos6% setenv DISPLAY 10.11.22.33:0.0 # I use tcsh >> centos6% xterm >> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 10.11.22.33:0.0 >> centos6% >> >> Is there something obvious? > > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-11/msg00029.html > > The relevant part is "startx and startxwin now pass '-nolisten tcp' to the > server by default, which increases security in the X server by not opening a > port to TCP connections. The '-listen' flag can be passed as a server > argument to override this." > > Your choices are to add the '-listen' flag to the startxwin invocation, or > (better) to use 'ssh -Y' and not explicitly set DISPLAY (See > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh) > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
