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REPOST: XDMCP Problems


I'm hoping somebody can give me a hand with this, I'm using the
latest cygwin xfree, and have read the FAQ and tried everything 
in it with no success.

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:25 -0600, Robert Campbell wrote:
> Hi all.... my first question to this forum so be gentle.
> 
> I have two problems that seem to be related.
> 
> I have a home LAN setup with two FC4 boxes.
> 
> On the first FC4 box, I have setup XDMCP, and can connect to the XDMCP
> via Xnest on the second box.
> 
> This works:     
>       Xnest :1 -query <ip address> 
> 
> This tells me that XDMCP seems to be working properly on the first FC4
> machine.
> 
> However, using cygwin/Xfree on an XP Pro notebook I cannot connect.
> I continue to get the 'Too many retransmissions' message.
> 
> I've tried the following combinations of commands:
>      Xwin -query <ip address>
>      Xwin -query <ip address> -from <local ip address>
>      
> I have disabled completely the firewall on the XP Pro laptop, and have
> no clue as to why it's not connecting.
> 
> Curiously enough though,  I can bring the same laptop into the office
> connect it to the lan and use
>      Xwin -query <ip address>
> To start an XDMCP session to a Solaris 8 machine.
> 
> The second question is related, it involves XDMCP from the same laptop
> to the same sun machine over a VPN.
> 
> Whenever I initialize an openvpn connection to the office, I can ping,
> telnet, surf the local intranet, etc, etc. all over the vpn with no
> difficulty.  However, when I try to connect to the Solaris 8 host
> via xdmcp, I get the "Too many retransmissions" error after a couple of
> minutes.  I've tried every set of Xwin command combinations I can think
> of, with no success.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas ?
> 
> 
> 
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