Cygwin/X over a VPN connection in VMWare guest WinXP

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Fri Jun 6 11:27:00 GMT 2008


2008/6/6 Willie Vu <willievu@dev.java.net>:
> I setup Cygwin/X in a VMWare guest WinXP.  When I'm in office, I can use
> xterm to connect to a remote Unix host.  When I'm at home, I use VPN to
> connect to the office inside VM.  In that case, xterm cannot connect to the
> remote host and prints the following error:
>
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
>
> In VM, I can telnet to the remote host and I can ping the VMWare client IP
> from the remote Unix host.  Any idea?

So the routes are correct.

Set the DISPLAY correctly.
In VM open the Windows firewall port for X.
Also on the VM Host open the firewall port for X.
-- 
Reini Urban
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