[ale] Windows Remoting X'ing

jeb jeb at rev-x.com
Tue Apr 13 19:00:15 EDT 2004


I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my 
windows box?

I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I 
am running putty with x11 forwarding on.  However, I login fine but when 
I launch x as a normal user I get :

[jebba at localhost jebba]$ startx
Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?xinit:  Server error.


But, when I log in as root, and start x.  It runs on the server.

Hopefully this makes sense?  I am still very new to linux.  What I'm a 
doing wrong?



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