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Xfree issues under Windows 2000
- From: "Ken C" <cygxlist at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:06:10 -0700
- Subject: Xfree issues under Windows 2000
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I'm hoping someone can help me out with a problem that I have unsuccessfully
been trying to solve for a few weeks. I'm a fairly experienced Windows guy
trying to learn more about Linux, just to provide a little background.
I have a Mandrake 8.2 box and a Windows 2000 (SP1) box running Cygwin and
Xfree, and Xfree runs fine on the W2K box, but will not connect to the
Mandrake box - I just get the gray screen and 'X' mouse pointer.
The odd thing is, I've installed MicroImages MI/X on that same W2K system
and it connects right away (it's just not as stable as Cygwin/Xfree).
Telnet, ssh and Samba connections work fine between the two. I can also
connect to the Mandrake box from Cygwin/Xfree installed on a Windows 2000
system in another location after opening up the appropriate ports on the
firewall. I've had no trouble connecting other W2K systems using
Cygwin/Xfree to other Mandrake 8.2, 9.0, RedHat 8.0, SGI and Sun systems in
other locations.
The Mandrake box is connected to a Netgear switch through CAT-5, and the
Windows box is using a Belkin 802.11b wireless card to connect, at least
during most of the time I've been working on this. I've disabled the
on-board ethernet so that the only active card was the Belkin, but I've also
run a CAT-5 cable to the switch and disabled the Belkin card, but with no
success - I get the same result.
Any suggestions on getting this to work is greatly appreciated!
Ken
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