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RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:16:26 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert, Francois [mailto:francois.robert@it.unisys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:41 PM
> To: 'Enoch Wu'
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
>
>
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : Enoch Wu [mailto:ewu@eskimo.com]
> ...
> > Meanwhile, check to see if you have an over
> > zealous virus checker. If so, temporarily disable
> > or exit out of the virus checker.
> ...
> Short answer : No I don't.
> Long answer : In fact, the virus checker I used to have,
> trashed the system
> to the point that it would not boot anymore. I was forced to
> reinstall the
> OS, at which point I decided I forgot about virus checking.
> So much for
> internal corporate policies...
>
Are you using XDMCP behind the firewall? Are you all tcp connection, even
internal
connections, are first routed to firewall? If so that might be your
problem?
Suhaib