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Re: Host Chooser Program?
- From: Tim Thomson <tim dot thomson at paradise dot net dot nz>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:45:16 +1300
- Subject: Re: Host Chooser Program?
- References: <F83uoqJVCCF3gl6mP4500013663@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:48:04AM +0000, J S wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:18:00PM +0000, J S wrote:
> >
> >> Tim,
> >>
> >> This is a really good, simple GUI program which will make life a lot
> >easier
> >> for my users. I tried the cygwin connection tool on win 98 and 2000, but
> >it
> >> didn't work on neither, complaining of missing DLLs so I guess that
> >needs
> >> more testing.
> >>
> >> The xlauncher worked well on W2k, and did run on Win95 (configured with
> >a
> >> fixed IP address - not dhcp) but didn't "connect" so I was just
> >wondering
> >> if that was a win95 bug or not?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> JS.
> >
> >It looks OK, its a pity it isn't in a free C/C++ though :)
> >
> >Under the "other" tab, there is an area down the bottom which may
> >display an IP address. Does it?
>
> Yes it does.
>
> >If not, then the xlauncher program hasn't worked out what the IP of the
> >machine is, and won't pass the -from parameter, so will leave it to
> >cygwin to work it out.
> >
> >Does X start when you use XWin -query yourhostIPhere -from
> >yourdesktopIPhere
> >? (from a bash prompt, with the path set correctly ;) )
>
> It does if I have a fixed IP address.
Hmm, weird. Haven't had that combination before :)
Could you please post me (not the list) your Xwin.log, and your
launchx.bat file that XLauncher creates from one of these 95 machines,
after running XLauncher on it? Hopefully that will turn up something.
Cheers,
Tim.