X windows display problem

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Sep 5 08:27:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:41:23PM -0400, Meredith Finkelstein wrote:
>Thanks to everyone for their help. 
>
>However I am still not getting it to work... 
> when i echo my DISPLAY variable in cygwin it  gives me 172.0.0.1 - the loop 
>back (or whatever the proper term is) - using this value remote xwindows does 
>not work.

Shouldn't that be 127.0.0.1, not 172.0.0.1?

cgf



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