Start cygwin. A command prompt opens. Type 'startx'. (without the '')
Another command prompt opens. This is the X based one. The ssh to
your debian box. Type 'xeyes'. Should open on your windows machine.


Calab wrote:
> I have connected to my Debian PC with SSH using PuTTY under Windows XP. X11
> forwarding is enabled in PuTTY. If I try to start an xwindow application,
> the connection is rejected. I've not had any success using Cygwin or XMing.
> Both reject the connection the same way, so I assume that the Debian PC is
> not configured correctly.
>
> Every time I try to connect to the XServer on my Windows PC, I end up with
> the following entry in the XServer log file:
>
> AUDIT: Tue Feb 12 21:49:43 2008: 3868 C:\Program Files\Xming\Xming.exe:
> client 4 rejected from IP 10.0.11.16
>
>
> This is what I see on my Debian SSH session:
>
> steve:~$xeyes
> Xlib: connection to "stevespc:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Error: Can't open display: stevespc:0.0
>
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get my remote Debian PC to use
> my Windows XServer?
>
>