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Re: "Linux @ home -> Cygwin X server @ home" won't work
On Wed, 4 May 2005, seya wrote:
> > Hm. Firewall issue? Or general network problems?
> After "xeyes&" is issued at line 2 it takes while till I get the error
> message, " Error: Can't open display: 192.168.11.2:0.0" with "xhost +" on
> the Cygwin server side. I see the same behavior with "xhost -". It tells me
> Cygwin X server is not really listing the request from X client.
>
> Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Maybe the xserver is not listening on the local network interface but only
on the vpn interface
netstat -an | grep 6000 should give a line
TCP 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:0 ABHREN
The important part is the 0.0.0.0:6000 which means accepting connections on all
interfaces. Anyway, even if this is not the case the client should die early
with a connection refused message.
Can you somehow trace the traffic on the local network?
tcpdump "port 6000" on linux should print useful traces of network traffic
bye
ago
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