XWin and xauth

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rayman, Louis wrote:

> I'm having the weirdest time getting XWin to grant my solaris/linux login
> display rights.
> 
> first, my host PC translates its own name differently than the unix machines
> do, so I get something like this:
> cygin$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.leh.lbcorp.lehman.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
> 
> but:
> 
> solaris$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
> solaris$ echo $DISPLAY
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
> solaris$ xterm
> Xlib: connection to "nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
> 
> 
> then, if by some  miracle I get past that, after a certain amount of time,
> the connection stop working, even if I already have an xterm running, I
> can't start another!!?!
> 
> what's a poor boy to do?

Please check
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/bin/view/Main/CygwinXTroubleShooting#Cygwin_X_reports_AUDIT_client_1_

the symptoms are a bit different but the main problem is the same (wrong name translation)

bye
	ago
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