What packages are needed to run Xwindows from Xterm such reflection or CgWin or XMing?

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Issue

When trying to run XMing to connect to a remote session, the following error occurs:

Can't run remote X window term.  Errors presented are the following:
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key, giving up.
xinit:  unable to connect to X server

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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