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Re: XDMCP
- From: Staf Verhaegen <staf dot verhaegen at imec dot be>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:57:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: XDMCP
- Organization: IMEC vzw
- References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021116131019.00a96a70@mail.verizon.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
David Calkins wrote:
>
> I'm trying to connect up to a machine at work using XDMCP. My home machine
> is Win2k + Cygwin + XFree86. I made sure to use the cygwin setup program
> to get the latest packages. I'm using the -query option to do this, i.e.
> XWin -depth 32 -engine 4 -fullscreen -refresh 85 -screen 0 1024 768 -query
> $remotehost
> I get the login screen, enter my username and password and attempt to
> login. For some reason, I just get bounced back to the login screen
> again. I've been unable to get this to work.
>
> Any ideas as to what could cause this?
>
What is the machine you are connecting to ? Is it running a CDE environment ?
I've seen this happen for CDE when not all the needed fonts are available for
the CDE session.
Contact your system adminstrator to see if they have a font server running in
your company.
Staf.