Re: Please help! Remote clients rejected.

[Jim Hutson <jhutson at pacbell dot net>]

I think from a terminal on your windows machine you must type
/usr/X11R6/bin/xhost TelnetMachineIP
this allows incoming requests from the machine you are telnetting to.  Then
try telnetting and launching some program.  I tried it yesterday and it
worked.

jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Duduica" <simon_duduica@yahoo.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: Please help! Remote clients rejected.


>
> Hello,
>
>   I installed the Xfree86 for windows and the local
> clients (that came with cygwin) work well but I can't
> execute remote clients.
>
> Things happen like this.
> 1. I fire a telnet connection to the remote machine.
> 2. I launch xfree on my WinNT machine.
> 3. On the Linux remote machine i do an
>           export DISPLAY=MyMachineIP:0.0
> 4. On the remote machine I launch an application, say
> netscape. I get the following errors:
> Xlib: connection to "MyMachineIP:0.0" refused by
> server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Error: Can't open display: MyMachineIP:0.0
>
>
> 5. On local machine, in the dos window openned by
> xfree upon launch I get:
> AUDIT: Mon Apr 23 14:23:33 2001: 318 XWin: client 3
> rejected from IP TheRemoteMachineIP port 1068
>   Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
>
> Things work fine if I use MIX as xserver.
> What is the problem?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Simon.
>
>
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