Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jozsef,

Wait a minute... you will have to excuse me.  You meant ``from another 
xhost terminal'', not ``from another machine on the network.''.

Forget what I said in my previous email.

Harold

Kercso Jozsef wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have the following problem:
> - I have started a bash consol window as usual with "cygwin.bat"
> $>  XWin.exe &
> $> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> $> xhost +
>
> Then from another host:
> [einstein]$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> [einstein]$ xterm &
> Xlib: connection to "127.0.01:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Then at the original host:
> $> xterm &
> # The window was accepted and displayed
>
> Second try from einstein:
> [einstein]$ xterm &
> Xlib: connection to "127.0.01:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Then at the original host:
> $> xhost +
>
>
> Third try from einstein:
> [einstein]$ xterm &
> # The window was accepted and displayed
>
> So, the X server first needs an xterm from the original host, only
> after that will accept connection from another hosts. I have found, that
> the second "xhost +" works from the in the X server previously
> displayed xterm too.
>
> Why is this so? Why the first "xhost +" does not work?
> Can anybody help me? (I  have the latest X server:4.2.0-1).
>
> Thanks,
>    Jozsef Kercso
>