Hi,

i want to connect to my linux desktop from windows machines.
and i am not able to connect.i also rum following commands on linux

[root@rnctest1 ~]# export DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0
[root@rnctest1 ~]# xhost +
Xlib: connection to "=<ip>:" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xhost: unable to open display "=<ip>:"
[root@rnctest1 ~]# xhost +
Xlib: connection to "=<ip>:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xhost: unable to open display "=<ip>::0.0"

Hi.

Two things:
1) Do you have an X server running on the Cygwin host (ps -ef | grep X)?
2) The DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0 should be run on the Cygwin host, not the linux host.

Dave

This might sound extremely silly, but do you really write <ip> all the time, or have you replaced it with a real and valid IP number? This is not supposed to be an intimidation, but people using windows boxes sometimes are much too strict when typing sample code from tutorials. Your posting doesn't make that clear.

If you can't connect at all from the Windows machine to the Linux one - then please give more details on how you are trying to connect. I assume that you are using ssh, so here is what you need to make sure:

1) The Linux machine should have ssh server working. You don't mention which Linux you have, but often the ssh server is not installed by default. Check if the package is installed.

2) From cygwin, you can connect with 'ssh -X <ip_address_of_linux>'. This will save you the need to set the DISPLAY variable by yourself. You will be able to start GUI apps and see them on Windows. You need to have X installed on the cygwin host, as Dave already mentioned, and you need ssh client which is also not installed by default with cygwin (the cygwin package is called openssh).

i have installed cygwin on windows machine and i want to connect to my linux box.I think some configuration needed to be done at linux box side so as enable the display of linux box.
obviously i have used my machines ip in place of <ip>:....;-)
can any one help me out..???