Cannot start XServer

[Nikolay Metchev]

I sent the e-mail below .  I have been asked to provide additional
information. I am using Windows XP. I have a TCP/IP LAN using internet
connection sharing. I do not use Zone Alarm or any other personal firewall
tool. I still get the error message listed below.

> I have installed the 4.2.0 version of Cygwin/XFree86 on my Windows XP
laptop
> using a second monitor and when I tried to run the XServer a window of
some
> sort appeared and then disappeared leaving this message:
> $ ./startxwin.bat
> startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
> any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>