On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:10:54AM +0200, Loic Domaigne wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm trying to get a remote Linux/KDE desktop from my XP box using cygwin. > Following the FAQ and various posts, I have proceeded as follows: > > 1) I made sure that XDMCP is enable on the linux box. > > 2) In a cygwin shell, I started XWin.exe: > $ XWin.exe -query linux_box -from my_XP_box > > 3) I got a X-window with grey shading, but no kde logging session. > > 4) After a while, I obtained the error message: > Fatal server error: > XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 329792025 failed for display > my_XP_box:0: cannot open display > > > Does have someone an idea what's going wrong? > It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display. I do what you;re trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like this but it may well be that XP is being more 'secure'.
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