Re: Xterm issues

On 9/7/06, Mike Schmitt <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 


Hi all,


I am having some problems getting the installer to startup on a new laptop
and was hoping I could get some help from the list.


I have installed cygwin with the X11 option. If I start cygwin and type
startx I get an X window to open up without any errors.  If I do a netstat
–a at this point I see something listening at port 6000 which is what I
believe I should expect.


*TCP    mycomp:6000       mylaptop:0  LISTENING *


I login into our Sun box and export DISPLAY=<my laptops IP>:0.0.  I then
kick off xclock for a test.  After executing xclock, the process will hang
for a bit before returning the error message


*Error: Can't open display: <my laptops IP>:0.0*


While the xclock command is hanging, I perform a netstat –a on the sun box
and see the following:


*<sun server>.54453         <my PC>.6000     0      0 24820      0
SYN_SENT  *


The sun server is resolving my laptop name incorrectly, but since I am
setting my display to the IP address I am not sure how much that matters.


On the sun server if I try to telnet to port 6000 I get the same SYN_SENT
message from netstat



*<sun server>.54864         <my PC>.6000     0      0 24820      0
SYN_SENT*


Is it possible that I am running into a windows firewall issue on my
laptop?    I don't have permissions to turn off the windows firewall, but
was told by desktop support that he opened port 6000.  I am not sure if his
change worked though

 Any help would be appreciated

 Thanks





Mike,

Since you already are using Cygwin for the Xserver, why not connect to the
remote host with ssh, using the -X switch. In this case, the xterm traffic
is tunnelled (transparently).

It works well for me.

Paul

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