unable to use x forwading from cygwin shell

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

mnedai wrote:
> 1. installed cygwin on xp sp2
> 2. started shell
> 3. ssh -Y -p 22 oracle@sand1
> 4. export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't do this.  'ssh -X' and 'ssh -Y' set DISPLAY properly if the X-server
is running on your local system.

> 5. no error (just exit code) application did not start
> 6. $ net helpmsg 53
> 
> The network path was not found.

Sounds like the classic symptom of a missing needed DLL.  Run
'cygcheck ssh' on your local system to find the DLL(s) that's missing.
Then install the package(s) with the needed DLL(s).

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