connecting from a X-client to a cygwin X-server
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
from the my-outsourced-brain-dept:
- Install cygwin. Be sure to select the X11 base package
- open a cygwin shell
- start X:
$ startxwin.sh - you will get a xterm window on your Windows box
- type
$ xhost +to disable host security, so that other hosts can connect to your server - Enable X port forwarding in PuTTY ( Connections / SSH / Tunnels )
- connect to the remote machine and start the program that requires X
If all goes well, it will show up on your screen. If you get a “Xlib: connection to “:0.0″ refused by server” error message, you have forgot to disable the security by typing xhost +.
Thanks for sharing the information.
Works perfectly. Just in remote clinet we need to set DISPLAY to redirect to local host.
Regards and thanks
Vishal Verma