Startxwin.bat fatal error in Windows Vista

[Allen Rongone]

Hello,

    We recently received a new Dell Precision M90 laptop with Windows 
Vista Business version 6.0 pre-installed. I downloaded and installed the 
latest version of Cygwin (1.5.24) on it. Our users use it for X window 
access to our Unix servers, anyway, whenever a user on this machine 
attempts to run the startxwin.bat file they get a window that pops up 
and says:

    A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
    Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.

    XWin was started with the following command-line:
    /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

    I've attached a copy of the log, (along with with the output of 
cygcheck) but it basically says that there was fatal server error 
because it couldn't establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X 
server isn't already running.

    I've seen this before under Windows XP and it was due to the fact 
that the previous user was the owner of the /tmp/.X11-unix directory and 
no one else had permissions to delete the X0 file nor were they able to 
remove this directory. I just gave Everyone Full Control to the /tmp 
directory and made it inheritable, that solved the problem. However, now 
under Vista, Everyone no longer gets propagated to the /tmp/X11-unix 
directory so when another user runs startxwin.bat it cannot delete the 
X0 file and remove the sud-directory.

    Is this a Vista problem or a XWin.exe issue? And if so does anyone 
know a workaround? I've tried configuring the permissions every which 
way and no matter what I try the permissions do not get propagated to 
the /tmp/X11-unix directory.

Thank you for your time,
Allen Rongone
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