RE: CYGWin reliability

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Mike,

Take a look at /tmp/XWin.log for errors.  Send in the relevant errors if you
find any (probably just the bottom few lines of the file).

Do you have more than one network card or a token-ring network card?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Linux
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:59 AM
> To: 'PD Dr. Edward Wornar'
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: CYGWin reliability
>
>
> Thanks for your interest/help. During the times when I cant connect using
> CYGwin using xwin.exe -query x.x.x.x -from x.x.x.x I get a new
> screen with a
> croshatch background ikt stays there for a while, 10-20 seconds, then
> dissapears. If I try multiple times I get the same responce. If I
> try XWin32
> (starnet) or the NCD terminal then I can connect. Going back to
> the Win2K PC
> dosent work. I leave it for an hour or reboot it some times then
> it may go.
> I am sorry to be vague but I have not discovered any disernable pattern to
> this madness.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PD Dr. Edward Wornar [mailto:edi@serbski-institut.de]
> Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 20:30
> To: linux@dounsix.co.nz
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: CYGWin reliability
>
>
> > I have been using Cygwin for the last 4 months now and find it
> reasonably
> > good to use, however.
> > I have been having continuous problems getting it to connect to
> the server
> > box.
> > The configuration is Server: Redhat 7.2 (was7.1) running xdm > Win2K
> Server.
> > Sometimes it will connect sometimes it wont connect at all.
> > I updated the Cygwin installation last week.
> > I have an eval copy of Xwin32 which works fine and my NCD300
> terminal also
> > connects every time.
> > Is there any tricks? Have I missed anything?
>
> We're using Cygwin/XFree86 4.1 at work to connect to a linux server and
> find it *extremely* reliable: Over 20 boxes and no such problems yet.
>
> What message do you get? Are these problems timeouts, refused connections,
> do other
> things work from a box when it can't connect? What else is
> running on these
> boxes?
> There's a lot of "utilities" and virus scanners out there which severely
> damage
> the network stuff on Windows.
>
> To me, it looks more like a network problem than a cygwin problem.
>
> HTH
>
> Edi
>
>
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