cygwin as X client

[Brian Ford]

I think you read that wrong.  He is trying to do the inverse of your
recipie.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Oliver Brandt wrote:

> 1. "X11Forwarding" in ssh_conifg (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box
> is enabled ("Yes")
> 2. "X11Forwarding" in sshd_config (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box
> is enabled ("Yes")
> 3. ssh on your linux box is enabled (/etc/services)
> 4. on your windows machine: export DISPLAY=YOUR_IP_WINDOWS2000:0.0
> 5. start XWin.exe AND your windowmanager (e.g. wmaker, fvwm ...)
> 6. ssh -X -l username hostname_linuxbox from your cygwinshell
> 7. open xemacs or xterm or any X-application and it should pop up in
> your X-Window
>
> > Now I am on trip, the computer in my offcie is cygwin/win2000. I opened the ssh and apache server.
> > The computer I used now is a linux system. I sshed to
> > my cygwin and want to use xterm. But it gave the error
> > information
> >    xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> > But I can use xterm on cygwin locally.
> > I sshed with the parameter -X,
> > and I browsered the mail archives, I didn't find help
> > for me.
> > I only wanted to use the Xapplication and I should be
> > able to do so for I can use it locally. What is going
> > wrong?
> >

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