"robert" <robertlazarski@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> 1) I've got a fedora 4 box running openssh .
> 2) I can run the xclock program just fine from another linux box to the
> fedora box using both ssh -X and the unix version of putty with X11
> forwarding enabled.
> 3) I cannot run xclock from any windows machine on our network with a
> remote ssh session going from windows into fedora via putty and X11
> forwarding enabled. The login goes fine and I can run any shell
> command, but when running any X program shuch as xclock it gives me:
>
> X connection to x.x.x.x:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
> Turning logging on via the putty / windows session , I just see
> MIT-magic- being exchanged and the and the '10.0 broken' error .
> I believe that the windows machine local firewall is disabled.
>
> Any ideas ?

Not to insult you, but are you running an X-server on the windows
machines?
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