[EABonney]

So I have to login to my home server from remote locations from time to time and I do this using SSH and usually Putty for Windows unless I am on a linux machine. Some of the items that I would like/need to run are X applications. I have X11 forwarding turned on on the server but yet I still get the following error whenever I attempt to run an application over ssh:

Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol attempted
Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0"

Now if I enter this first:
export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority

I get this error:

X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I have tried googling this but I haven't found anything useful. Anyone run into this and have you been able to fix it?

Thanks,
-Eric

[KenJackson]

Do you have both of these?

• -X (capital! X) on the putty command line, and
• X11Forwarding yes in file /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server

[EABonney]

I can actually get it working if I run the xapp through ssh from any of my linux boxes or laptops, but I am not able to do this from a Windows XP machine using Putty. I do have X11 forwarding enabled in Putty but it's still a no go.

Anyone have any other suggestions? Any other WinXP software that you would recommend that I could use?

-Eric

[bigtomrodney]

It says you are using display :10.0...have you tried specifying the display as :0 ?

[kakariko81280]

This may be a silly question, but have you installed anything on the windows XP box to act as an X server (I may mean client, I always get them confused for X).

You can't just run X based programs over a ssh connection from a Windows box, you have to install something like cygwin first. There may be alternatives, but I've used cygwin with much success.

Let us know how you get on,

Chris...