X11 forwarding connection refused
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Sep 30 19:35:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Anna Barnes wrote:
> Hi
> I'm sorry I know this question has been asked many times but I have
> searched FAQ and followed all the suggestions listed there for X11
> forwarding, for example I have set X11 forwarding to yes in the
> ssh_config files on both the client and the server. I have also set the
> DISPLAY variable, and tried using xhost + I have also tried some of the
> solutions previously mentioned but I still get the error message when I
> try and run any of the applications on our apps server.......
>
> connect localhost port 6000: connection refused
> X connection to nimbus:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
> I will also add that I never get any of these problems with my apple mac
> versions of X11.
Sounds like the X server is not accepting connections. Can you run local
X clients (e.g., xterm)?
FWIW, you don't need to use "xhost +" with ssh forwarding.
Also, see if
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding>
helps...
Igor
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