RE: Running XDMCP "server"

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

*snort*
I can't help but laugh, David!
No, not at your predicament, but rather at the funny coincidence that you
and I are both looking at the same problem but from opposite ends!  LOL

So I take it that you're running Windows, and you'd like Windows to be the
"server" (you're right - probably the wrong terminology here) and permit
Linux boxes to XDMCP to your Windows machine?

	If that is the case, I *think* your Windows machine should run Xnest and
your Linux machines should then connect to it. Looks like I'm probably
backward... OK, more reading of the docs is in order. I will get back to you
if I figure anything out. Please do the same.

Thanks

Jean-Claude




-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of David Fraser
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:13 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Running XDMCP "server"

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:

>I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But
>there is no user called root on my system...
>Thanks.
>
>
>
An equal and opposite reaction... Is it possible to run XDMCP as a "server"
(sorry probably wrong terminology) on the cygwin side, so I can run say
Xnest from
Linux, connect to XDMCP on Cygwin, login...?
And what does the xdm running as root message mean ... I even tried
creating a user
called root and that didn't work...

Just out of interest

David