On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Harold Hunt wrote: > Tzafrir, > > > A simpler suggestion: > > > > telnet to port 6000 of the windows machine from the linux server. > > > > A connection should be established (whatever the X configuration is). If > > no connection is established then something is wrong. > > That's not a simpler test... it won't give any new information. > > We already know that something is wrong, the issue now is to find out what > is causing the problem. > > If you noticed, he said that he _sometimes_ gets an XDM login screen.The > test you describe will probably _sometimes_ work, which does nothing to tell > us where the problem is coming from.
If a cleint is not able to connect to an X server it may be because the client or the server processes are misconfigured, or because the network configuration below is screwed-up. telnet to port 6000 verifies that the network layer probably works. Also try doing a large file transfer, to verify that the connection is not very bad and gets disconnected. I believe that this will eliminate any networking wierdness and allow to focus on X (mis)configuration issues. (And it is much simpler than setting a seprate network with static IPs) -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \
