Hi, i'm new to Xserver but i've check around and can't find what's wrong with my system. I'm trying to get x to work with the xwin32 client on my pc. X work well on the console. After setting my display, i type startx and i get: [oracle@oradev2 oracle]$ startx Fatal server error: PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. Please report problems to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxx Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console [oracle@oradev2 oracle]$ echo $DISPLAY 192.168.205.52:0.0 Frank Delisle DBA/Data expert Globalmedic.com (514)738-6832 ext.257 "Failure is not an option" _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86