getting x-win32 to work with a slack ware machine

[bignester]

I want to use X-win32 to connect to my machine.

Does anybody know how to set up a machine to except this.

[Dolda2000]

Have X-Win32 running on the Windows machine, then connect with putty to your Linux machine, using the SSH protocol and having X11 forwarding turned on. Then just launch any X program (including something like startkde or gnome-session), and they will connect to your X-Win32 server through the SSH channel.

[bignester]

I get an error saying that it cant init the X-session.

And when i try to set the DISPLAY to the IP that im at it wont let connect.

[andutt]

Have you enabled X11 forwarding in putty??

[Dolda2000]

I get an error saying that it cant init the X-session.

When you do what?

And you shouldn't set the DISPLAY var to your IP. It much less secure, much more troublesome and much more error-prone than using SSH to forward the connections.

[bignester]

ok here is what im doing

I launch X-win32 hen i go to putty and turn on x forwarding it has its setting to localhost:0

I log into my machine and when i try to open a xterminal it gived me an error

Cant open display

[bignester]

I fixed it I had to add my computer to the xhost list in the x-config in x-win32

But I Still have to export my display to the ip address of the box that im on.

Is there another way where i could skip the export step.

[Dolda2000]

It might be that the SSH server has X11 forwarding disabled. When you have just connected, check "echo $DISPLAY", and see if it returns :10. If it doesn't return anything, then your SSH server has X11 forwarding disabled.
Is the server yours or are you connecting to someone else's system?

[bignester]

Its my server.

[Dolda2000]

Did you check what "echo $DISPLAY" gives you?