Question about remote X authorizations

[Marcus Frischherz]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> 
> serverA $ xauth list
> client:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  3413185661096326671c706b2b53743f
> 
> serverB $ xauth add client:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  3413185661096326671c706b2b53743f
> 

This actually worked! Thanks!

> You may disable the whole access control for specific hosts with "xhost hostname"
> or disable it at all with "xhost +". Specifying hosts in /etc/X0.hosts will disable

I knew this in theory, but it didn't work, don't know why.

My company doesn't really believe in open source software, 
unfortunately, so evrything is set up to work with Exceed, and I have to 
figure out how to do things with cygwin all by myself. However, I am 
trying to promote cygwin :-)

Marcus