I have previously installed Xfree 4.2.0 when it first came out on cygwin, using the old method of running install.sh. Everything worked fine. Recently, I installed Xfree 4.2.0 using setup.exe on another computer (both computers run Windows 2000). On the new computer, if I ssh to another computer using "ssh -X hostname", I get the following error message
Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "localhost:10.0" % This error does not occur with the older installation using install.sh. The cygwin1.dll version is the same, and the ssh version is the same. Fortunately, the error is readily eliminated by adding the line xhost +127.0.0.1 to .xinitrc. on the new computer. Then everything works fine. A similar difference can also be reproduced with 2 Windows 98 machines. Is there a reason for this apparent difference? Raymond Kwong