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It uses ports 6000 through 6010 for X displays. if something (e.g. a firewall) is blocking these it won't allow them to come through. On Windows XP I had to open those ports in the Windows firewall to get XP to allow for X windows to come up.
If the machines are in different subnets it may be the switches or routers between them are blocking the ports.
If there is a firewall blocking those ports that you can't get changed (e.g. the network guy tells you to go to heck) you can look into ssh x-tunneling wherein it actually uses an ssh (port 22) session you've opened from the client to the server. At that point it sets a special DISPLAY value and comes back over the original ssh connection rather than via the 6000 ports.
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