That definately means that the screen isn't there to begin with. If you have Xwin or Xvision or any of those Windoze based X servers then you can do this: export DISPLAY=WindozeIP:0 printool # Or whatever GUI program and it will output to the WIndoze machine. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -----Original Message----- From: bart bunting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:08 AM To: Herbert Xu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: X and authorization Herbert Xu writes: > bart bunting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > when trying to launch an app i get: > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: erno = 111 > > This means that it can't connect to the server. In particular, 111 is > ECONNREFUSED. See if you can telnet to port 6000 on hostname from the > client machine. If you can't, have a look on the server to see if it's > actually listening (can't see why it wouldn't be, but...). If it is, > you've probably got a firewall. > nothing is listening on port 6000 at all. in fact i can't find it in /etc/services either. what should be listening there? this probably explains why it isn't working :) I have to add, that i'm using xfree86 4 if that makes a difference? thanks again. Bart -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
