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RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
- From: "Palic, Darko" <darko dot palic at gmx dot de>
- To: "PD Dr. Edward Wornar" <edi at serbski-institut dot de>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:09:39 +0100
- Subject: RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
- Reply-to: <darko dot palic at gmx dot de>
Helo,
how do you connect to the mandrake? Via DNS names or via IP?
Then the login appears, are tere any differences in the performance during
the session?
best reards,
Darko
> Hello,
>
> sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I was unable to find information in
> the mailing-list archives/Howtos.
>
> I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients
> running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the
> win98 clients,
> XDMCP is *extremely* slow so it literary takes minutes to get the
> login screen
> and log in. They all are in my /etc/hosts file, they
> seem to have exactly the same protocols running, but while some react
> very snappily, others are extremely sluggish. Maybe anyone can give
> me a clue what might be wrong? (I am not familiar with
> TCP/IP interna, so I'm not capable of interpreting the output of
> tcpdump but I can mail it to anybody willing to help.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Edi
>