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RE: Info on "Can't open display"
- To: "'Christopher Landrieu'" <landrieu at hotmail dot com>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Info on "Can't open display"
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:14:22 -0400
> I think that all of this info points to a problem in the
> Cygwin/XFree86 X
> Clients/libraries that causes them to fail to connect. The
> problem is not
> with the X server or the network configuration at all, its with the X
> clients.
>
I am sorry to say there are no problems with libraries. All the times
when users reported this problem, it was ALWAYS something at their
workstation,
for example a screwed up tcp/ip stack or a firewall etc etc.
Suhaib
> I plan to do a few more tests with the Win98SE machine and
> will post any new
> info that I find. I want to try watching the X clients
> connect to a remote
> X server and sniff the packets. That may give me a clue as
> to why the
> connection is failing.
>
> Chris L.
>
>
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