Forward X11 failed Network error Connection refused

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I have a VPS which OS is CentOS6 3  I want to run startx via PuTTY and Xming   But  it produces this error   PuTTY X11 proxy  unable to connect to forwarded X server  Network error  Connection refused   The whole condition   Using username  root   Authenticating with public key  rsa-key-20150906  from agent Last login  Thu Jan 21 13 53 40 2016 from 222 222 150 82  root mairo     xhost   PuTTY X11 proxy  unable to connect to forwarded X server  Network error  Connection refused xhost   unable to open display  localhost 10 0   root mairo     echo  DISPLAY localhost 10 0  root mairo     gedit PuTTY X11 proxy  unable to connect to forwarded X server  Network error  Connection refused  gedit 6287   Gtk-WARNING     cannot open display  localhost 10 0  root mairo       And here is the Xming log   Welcome to the Xming X Server Vendor  Colin Harrison Release  6 9 0 31 FreeType2  2 3 4 Contact  http   sourceforge net forum  group id 156984  Xming  10 -multiwindow -clipboard   XdmcpRegisterConnection  newAddress 192 168 139 1 winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width  1366 height  768 depth  32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 glWinInitVisuals 1596  glWinInitVisuals glWinInitVisualConfigs 1503  glWinInitVisualConfigs glWinSetVisualConfigs 1581  glWinSetVisualConfigs init visuals 1055  init visuals null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread mutex init InitQueue - pthread mutex init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread cond init InitQueue - pthread cond init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread mutex lock    winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread mutex lock    glWinScreenProbe 1390  glWinScreenProbe fixup visuals 1303  fixup visuals init screen visuals 1336  init screen visuals  --  5 mouse buttons found  --  Setting autorepeat to delay 500  rate 31  --  winConfigKeyboard - Layout   00000804   00000804    EE  Keyboardlayout  Chinese  Simplified  - US Keyboard   00000804  is unknown Could not init font path element D  Program Files  x86  Xming fonts misc   removing from list  Could not init font path element D  Program Files  x86  Xming fonts TTF   removing from list  Could not init font path element D  Program Files  x86  Xming fonts Type1   removing from list  Could not init font path element D  Program Files  x86  Xming fonts 75dpi   removing from list  Could not init font path element D  Program Files  x86  Xming fonts 100dpi   removing from list  Could not init font path element C  Program Files Xming fonts dejavu  removing from list  Could not init font path element C  Program Files Xming fonts cyrillic  removing from list  Could not init font path element C  WINDOWS Fonts  removing from list  winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread mutex lock    returned  winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread mutex unlock    returned  winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY 127 0 0 1 10 0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread mutex lock    returned  winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread mutex unlock    returned  winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY 127 0 0 1 10 0 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard    winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned  winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows Vista winClipboardProc - DISPLAY 127 0 0 1 10 0 winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay    returned and successfully opened the display  winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay    returned and successfully opened the display  winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay    returned and successfully opened the display    Here is my sshd config on VPS        OpenBSD  sshd config v 1 80 2008 07 02 02 24 18 djm Exp      This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file   See   sshd config 5  for more information     This sshd was compiled with PATH  usr local bin  bin  usr bin    The strategy used for options in the default sshd config shipped with   OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where   possible  but leave them commented   Uncommented options change a   default value    Port 22  AddressFamily any  ListenAddress 0 0 0 0  ListenAddress       Disable legacy  protocol version 1  support in the server for new   installations  In future the default will change to require explicit   activation of protocol 1 Protocol 2    HostKey for protocol version 1  HostKey  etc ssh ssh host key   HostKeys for protocol version 2  HostKey  etc ssh ssh host rsa key  HostKey  etc ssh ssh host dsa key    Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key  KeyRegenerationInterval 1h  ServerKeyBits 1024    Logging   obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging  SyslogFacility AUTH SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV  LogLevel INFO    Authentication    LoginGraceTime 2m  PermitRootLogin yes  StrictModes yes  MaxAuthTries 6  MaxSessions 10   RSAAuthentication yes  PubkeyAuthentication yes  AuthorizedKeysFile  ssh authorized keys  AuthorizedKeysCommand none  AuthorizedKeysCommandRunAs nobody    For this to work you will also need host keys in  etc ssh ssh known hosts  RhostsRSAAuthentication no   similar for protocol version 2  HostbasedAuthentication no   Change to yes if you don t trust    ssh known hosts for   RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication  IgnoreUserKnownHosts no   Don t read the user s    rhosts and    shosts files  IgnoreRhosts yes    To disable tunneled clear text passwords  change to no here   PasswordAuthentication yes  PermitEmptyPasswords no PasswordAuthentication yes    Change to no to disable s key passwords  ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no    Kerberos options  KerberosAuthentication no  KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes  KerberosTicketCleanup yes  KerberosGetAFSToken no  KerberosUseKuserok yes    GSSAPI options  GSSAPIAuthentication no GSSAPIAuthentication yes  GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes  GSSAPIStrictAcceptorCheck yes  GSSAPIKeyExchange no    Set this to  yes  to enable PAM authentication  account processing     and session processing  If this is enabled  PAM authentication will    be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and   PasswordAuthentication   Depending on your PAM configuration    PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass   the setting of  PermitRootLogin without-password     If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without   PAM authentication  then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication   and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to  no    UsePAM no UsePAM yes    Accept locale-related environment variables AcceptEnv LANG LC CTYPE LC NUMERIC LC TIME LC COLLATE LC MONETARY LC MESSAGES AcceptEnv LC PAPER LC NAME LC ADDRESS LC TELEPHONE LC MEASUREMENT AcceptEnv LC IDENTIFICATION LC ALL LANGUAGE AcceptEnv XMODIFIERS   AllowAgentForwarding yes  AllowTcpForwarding yes GatewayPorts yes  X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes  X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes  PrintMotd yes  PrintLastLog yes  TCPKeepAlive yes  UseLogin no  UsePrivilegeSeparation yes  PermitUserEnvironment no  Compression delayed  ClientAliveInterval 0  ClientAliveCountMax 3  ShowPatchLevel no  UseDNS yes  PidFile  var run sshd pid  MaxStartups 10 30 100  PermitTunnel no  ChrootDirectory none    no default banner path  Banner none    override default of no subsystems Subsystem   sftp     usr libexec openssh sftp-server    Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis  Match User anoncvs     X11Forwarding no     AllowTcpForwarding no     ForceCommand cvs server   And I have enabled the X11 forwarding     What s causing the error given above     New added details  According to  lilydjwg answer  I have filled the  X display location  And then tried again  but it s still wrong     Using username  root   Authenticating with public key  rsa-key-20150906  from agent Last login  Thu Jan 21 22 24 57 2016 from 222 222 150 82  root mairo     echo  DISPLAY localhost 10 0  root mairo     gedit process 6968  D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up  failed to read machine uuid  Failed to open  var lib dbus machine-id   No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue    D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Aborted  root mairo

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Other answers are outdated  or incomplete  or simply don t work   You need to also specify an X-11 server on the host machine to handle the launch of GUId programs  If the client is a Windows machine install Xming   If the client is a Linux machine install XQuartz    Now suppose this is Windows connecting to Linux  In order to be able to launch X11 programs as well over putty do the following    - Launch XMing on Windows client - Launch Putty       Fill in basic options as you know in session category       Connection - gt  SSH - gt  X11         - gt  Enable X11 forwarding         - gt  X display location    0 0         - gt  MIT-Magic-Cookie-1         - gt  X authority file for local display   point to the Xming exe executable   Of course the ssh server should have permitted Desktop Sharing  Allow other user to view your desktop     MobaXterm and other complete remote desktop programs work too

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X display location   localhost 0 Worked for me

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you should install a x server such as XMing  and keep the x server is running  config your putty like this  Connection-Data-SSH-X11-Enable X11 forwarding should be checked  and X display location   localhost 0

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PuTTY can t find where your X server is  because you didn t tell it   ssh on Linux doesn t have this problem because it runs under X so it just uses that one   Fill in the blank box after  X display location  with your Xming server s address   Alternatively  try MobaXterm  It has an X server builtin

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fill in the  X display location  did not work for me  but install MobaXterm did the job

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I had the same problem  but it s solved now  Finally  Putty does work with Cigwin-X  and Xming is not an obligatory app for MS-Windows X-server   Nowadays it s xlaunch  who controls the run of X-window  Certainly  xlaunch exe must be installed in Cigwin  When run in interactive mode it asks for  extra settings   You should add  -listen tcp  to additional param field  since Cigwin-X does not listen TCP by default   In order to not repeat these steps  you may save settings to the file  And run xlaunch exe via its shortcut with modified CLI inside  Something like   C  cygwin64 bin xlaunch exe -run C  cygwin64 config xlaunch

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Do not log in as a root user  try another one with sudo permissions

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The D-Bus error can be fixed with dbus-launch    dbus-launch command

[ssh] Forward X11 failed: Network error: Connection refused

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