You running doing the xhost + on the Win8 box and the export DISPLAY on the Linux side, right? On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu>wrote: > When I put > export DISPLAY="IP address:0.0" ip address being my windows8 desktop > > then > xhost + > > I get > xhost: unable to open display "IP:0.0" > > when I try > export DISPLAY=":0.0" > I get the same thing. > > I have centos6.4 running on a late model Dell Blade > Windows8 Alienware laptop > > I checked the xwin firewall setting and it is set to public network > access (but strangely private network is grayed out) > any ideas > > -- > > Dan Hyatt > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >