OK I installed Cywin on a PC (Win2000) - and I installed the XFree86 and..... it works! Well - up to point anyhow. I can't persuade the local 'X' environment to accept connections from our Linux Box - or at least, not except for a round about route. Clearly I don't understand something. I start up Cygwin and do XWin and hey presto up pops an X window. I can connect locally to this in that I can run twm locally and within it I can run local apps like xeyes, xcalc, etc which are supplied with the Cygwin environment. However if I try xhost <linux IP box address> or even xhost + which I thought would allow all X connections it replies that it cannot open "". What does "" refer to and where should it be set? I also tried a Win98 installation but it cannot open/find the font "default" which seems rather strange. Anyone able to point me in the right direction? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School