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Re: Can't remote connect to XF86 on Win2K
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Nick THOMPSON <nickthompson at agere dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:10:05 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Can't remote connect to XF86 on Win2K
On 24 Jun 2002, Nick THOMPSON wrote:
> It fails
> to connect to my Win2k server to display this (Works fine if I try the
> same on Win98):
please try "Xwin -indirect sunip -from windowsip"
> Xlib: connection to "mywinhost:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Error: Can't open display: mywinhost:0
>
> So I don't even get to choose a machine to login to. This make it
> difficult to get any information from the remote sun, especially X info
> for a display I have not connected to yet.
does "Xwin -query sunip" work?
> I can't "generate" a key as I have to be connected to the X server to do
> that. I can "add" a made up key, but I assume I would have to be root to
> do that, since I've not been able to tell the Sun who I am yet. I want
> users to be able to do this without my help though.
The thing with xauth list/add does only work after the xdm session has
been created. You fail earlier :(
> Seems to me that something is broken in my Win2k install as this works
> like a charm on 98. Did I already mention that ;-)
Hm, strange. This should not happen :(
bye
ago
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