Problem configuring X forwarding between Gentoo and Cygwin

[mahoneys]

I've got Gentoo installed and configured on my server. I do a lot of work from my Winbloze laptop via WiFi. I'd like to be able to make an X connection from Cygwin X, and have done so in the past, but am not having a lot of luck.

Here's my configuration:

Gentoo box (66.xxx.154.124) to Ethernet hub port 1

Windows laptop (192.168.1.1) via WiFi to WiFi AP (66.xxx.154.9) to Ethernet hub port 2

Windows desktop (66.xxx.154.20) to Ethernet hub port 3

Ethernet hub to DSL modem

The Gentoo box is running sshd with "X11Forwarding yes" and "X11DisplayOffset 10" in sshd_config. On the laptop I get X started, run "ssh -X dan@66.xxx.154.124", log in, and try to run an X app (like xterm). Nothing comes up on the laptop X, and on the Gentoo box my attempt to run xterm eventually times out.

I suspect I've just left out a step or two. Any ideas?
_________________
Dan Mahoney, dan@wolf.com

"How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
Robert Heinlein

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of
life -

[charlie26]

do you need to tell it a port to use ?

if you are inside a firewall why not just use vnc
the other way i do it ( to connect from work to my home machine) is with an SSH tunnel and then vncviewer.
Putty on the windows machine and then connect 5900 on the winclient to xx.xx.xx.xx:5901 on the linux box
then use vncviewer to connect to localhost in windows

with cygwin i think it would be ssh -l user -L 5900 : 192.168.0.x:5901 ip.ad.re.ss ( havent got windows machine with cygwin in front of me )

[mahoneys]