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Re: Please help! Remote clients rejected.
Start the XWin.exe server with -ac or use 'xhost' to allow access to certain
hosts or 'xhost +' for all hosts.
Alan.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:48:43AM -0700, Simon Duduica wrote:
>
> 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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