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RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir at technion dot ac dot il>
- Cc: "Darryl Wagoner" <darryl at shecora dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:05:50 -0500
- Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
Tzafrir,
> A simpler suggestion:
>
> telnet to port 6000 of the windows machine from the linux server.
>
> A connection should be established (whatever the X configuration is). If
> no connection is established then something is wrong.
That's not a simpler test... it won't give any new information.
We already know that something is wrong, the issue now is to find out what
is causing the problem.
If you noticed, he said that he _sometimes_ gets an XDM login screen. The
test you describe will probably _sometimes_ work, which does nothing to tell
us where the problem is coming from.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:03 PM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Cc: Darryl Wagoner; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Harold Hunt wrote:
>
> > Darryl,
> >
> > If at all possible, as a diagnostic test you should connect only the two
> > computers in question together on a seperate test network,
> making sure to
>
> [snip]
>
> A simpler suggestion:
>
> telnet to port 6000 of the windows machine from the linux server.
>
> A connection should be established (whatever the X configuration is). If
> no connection is established then something is wrong.
>
> To see that a connection is established with the standard unix tellnet:
>
> $ telent windows_machine 6000
> Trying <IP OF THE WINDOWS MACHINE>...
> Connected to <HOST NAME OF THE WINDOWS MACHINE.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> At this point a connection was established.
>
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