Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated

[Robert Collins]

what does route print show?

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated


>
> Hi,
>
>                  I am able to start the x server successfully on
>                  my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
>                  or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
>                  resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
>
>                  I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
>                  tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
>                  instead of 127.0.0.1.
>
>                  I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
>                  comes back with a message that it is unable to
connect
>                  to display. Noticed that a couple of people reported
>                  similar problem but could find no resolution for it
in
>                  the FAQs.
>
>                  Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect to
display
> 127.0.0.1:0.
>                  Same thing with twm.
>
>                  After mucking around for some time, I tried the
following.
>                  I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
>                  and an xterm in the remote machine setting the
DISPLAY as
>                  my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This seemed to
work
>                  just fine and I could connect to the Xfree server on
my
> laptop.
>
>                  I also ran Exceed on my local machine and used the
xterm
>                  that came with XFree to connect to the Exceed server.
> Again,
>                  the xterm comes back with a message that it is unable
to
> connect
>                  to display as before.
>
>                  Any pointers?
>                  Thanks,
>
>
> -giri
>
>