On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Eric B. wrote: > Thanks for the link. Reading it prompted me to read the XDMCP Howto, which > helped out significantly. > > I followed the instructions in the XDMCP howto, and managed to connect no > problem from one computer. However, when I follow exactly the same setup > steps for Cygwin on another computer, I am unable to connect remotely to the > XDM on my Linux machine. Xwin just opens with a blank screen. Both > machines are on the same internal subnet and I am issuing the same command > to both (Xwin -query 192.168.2.1). > > Is there any debugging information I can turn on to find out what machine #1 > is doing that machine #2 is not? I even went as far as copying the Cygwin > directory from the functional machine to the non-functional one in case > there was a problem with the install, but that did not make a difference > either. > > Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! > Thanks, > Eric
Look in the tail of /var/log/messages on the Linux machine for messages from [xkg]dm. XDMCP is very sensitive to DNS, so make sure the reverse DNS lookup from Linux for the IP address of machine #2 returns the correct FQDN for machine #2. If you don't have access to the DNS configuration, simply add machine #2 to the /etc/hosts file on the Linux machine. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton