Hello, Attempting to forward X11 without much success.
My local system is a Windows 2000 PC running the very latest Cygwin binaries, plus the xfree86 binaries. Xfree is running great locally under Windows. My Linux server - which is on a different subnet - is a Red Hat 7.2 system running XFree86. There is no firewall between the client and the server. The Linux server runs X11 just fine locally, My steps: 1) From a local cygwin shell on NT, I run "startxwin.sh" and X starts with a term. 2) ssh -v -l root mylinuxbox.foo.com -X (ssh version is what comes with Cygwin and is very recent) 3) Attempt starting an X11 app on the Linux box, such as "xeyes" or "kwrite", and I get the following info: [root@zaphod /root]# xeyes debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 2 win 4096 max 2048 debug1: client_request_x11: request from 192.168.100.21 35785 debug1: fd 8 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: channel 1: new [x11] debug1: confirm x11 debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol. debug1: X11 rejected 1 i1/o16 debug1: channel 1: read failed debug1: channel 1: input open -> drain debug1: channel 1: close_read debug1: channel 1: write failed debug1: channel 1: output open -> closed debug1: channel 1: close_write debug1: X11 closed 1 i2/o128 In particular, the "X11 connection uses different authentication protocol" seems to imply a software and not a configuration issue. The one "hack" I did was -- and this may be significant -- I could not start X11 on the Windows box because it couldn't find cyglibncurses5.dll. A search of the drive found cyglibncurses6.dll. I first tried symlinking, but that didn't solve the problem, so I duplicated the cyglibncurses5.dll file and renamed it to cyglibncurses6.dll Very ugly, I know :-) but XFree won't even start under Windows unless I do this. It does not sound related to the remote X11 problem, but I should mention this. Any help is most appreciated! Thanks! Scott Prive
