Slow performance over VPN/cable modem

[Bruce A. Hamilton]

At 06:25 AM 11/22/2003, you wrote:
>Bruce A. Hamilton wrote:
>
>>XP Pro SP1, Pentium 2.66 GHz, 1 GB memory.
>>I am running the latest cygwin including XFree86 4.3.0.
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestions. I'm quite sure this in an X issue. Wasn't MIT 
>>supposed to be working on "low-bandwidth X" years ago?
>
>Yes, they did and it's been available for a while now. You run the app 
>"lbxproxy" on the local end (home) set up to connect to your work server, 
>and then do a normal X connect to the local server connection that is 
>presented by lbxproxy.
>
>This assumes the normal case, that the remote server includes the LBX 
>server extension.

Thanks, but I get the following error

  % lbxproxy
  _LBXPROXYTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

If I try to hack up a bogus root user by adding it to the cygwin 
/etc/passwd, then chown says

  % chown root .X11-unix
  chown: changing ownership of `.X11-unix': Invalid argument

which is different than if I try to chown it to some non-existent user:

  % chown foo .X11-unix
  chown: `foo': invalid user

???

--Bruce (Bruce Hamilton, Redondo Beach, CA)
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