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RE: Question of using ssh -X under cygwin-x86free
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Paul Yeung" <pyeung at au1 dot ibm dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:41:24 -0400
- Subject: RE: Question of using ssh -X under cygwin-x86free
Paul,
>From your example it looks like you literally entered 'username' and
'hostname' as the user's name and the host computer's name. Did you really
do that? If so, I would expect that you would get some sort of odd error.
Try using your real user name after the '-l' and the name of the host that
you want to connect to as the hostname.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Paul Yeung
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:00 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Question of using ssh -X under cygwin-x86free
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I follow the instruction in the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide of installing
> the XFree86.
>
> When I used the "ssh -X" as described in the manual, I got the following
> error. Do you have any suggestion of what I have done wrong. I am running
> WinNt with service pack 6a on. I am using the latest version of
> Cygwin/XFree86 and the host is a Solaris 2.6 server.
>
> ssh -X -l username hostname
> hostname's password:
> Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket
>
>
> Regards,
> Paul Yeung
>
>