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I have used C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts for a long time on a Windows 2000 terminal server. But for some or another reason the Hosts file suddenly is being deleted from the system, and again as soon as I recreate it. I have tried to limit the file access to system administrator only without succeed. And I haven't found out yet if there can be or have been installed some kind of antivirus or spyware program that detects the Hosts file as a virus file and cause that it is being deleted.
a) Has someone experienced this before or any idea to solve it?
I saw that C:\cygwin\etc\Hosts was a link to the above Hosts file. Because of the above problem, I replaced the link with the real Hosts file itself.
Now I try to create a remote connection from a cygwin/X xterm using the following procedure:
startxwin.bat xterm X :2 -query remote_hostname
The system reports and exit the command in the xterm as follows. "Fatal server error: Xserver: -query unknown host: remote_hostname"
b) Doesn't Cygwin/X read this latter Hosts file?
2. X0.hosts
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To let queried remote xdm/dtlogin/gdm/kdm get access to the local Cygwin X server, I wonder if the syntax for the content in C:/cygwin/etc/X0.hosts should be "remote_hostname" only or "remote_hostname +", alternatively "remote_host_ip" only or "remote_host_ip +"?
Regards, Terje J. Hanssen
