On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:27:42PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote: > > > The "start /B xhost 127.0.0.1" and the "start /B xwinclip" both fail > > because they haven't got permission to access display 127.0.0.1:0.0. > > > > How on earth can one set this permission if xhost can't be run? > > create a file /etc/X0.hosts and add all hosts which should have access > to the xserver. > Ah, now that seems a good idea, thanks!
> > The xterm one is running in has permission to display so why can't > > xhost and xwinterm display there too? > > Which xterm? The one from linux has permission because you started it > from the xdm session. The one from windows has no permission because > someone might have logged on the the windows host and started it from > there. This is a simple security issue. > The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard cygwin (not cygwin/X) terminal window. It's there that I'm trying to start my session from (well, actually it's a batch file, but I'm running it from that window). -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])