Patrick, One question for starters: can you start a local Cygwin/XFree86 session (without XDMCP) on the machines that will not connect with XDMCP?
Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Jaromin > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: XDMCP to Solaris Hangs on specific W2k systems, not all > > > I'm posting this to the newsgroup after what I believe was an > exhaustive search > of the archives...my apologies if I've missed a previously posted > solution. > > I've got 3 W2k systems attempting to connect to a couple Solaris 8 boxes. > One system connected immediately, without any fuss using the basic: > XWin.exe -query <sun box> -from <w2k system> > > When I attempt this with the other two, the program hangs shortly after > displaying the black screen and hourglass cursor. Only right-click-close > or task manager will kill the app. > > After reading a few posts and the FAQ (on Sun's lack of 24-bit > color depth > support), > I noticed that the two that didn't work have video cards that > only support > 8, 16 and 24 bit color depth > -- while the working system supported and was set to 32 bit. > > Changing the other two systems to 16 or 8 bit didn't help....same hang. > > Replacing the video card on one with an NVidia with 32-bit support didn't > work either...same hang. > > I also attempted the -fp parameter even though it didn't appear to be a > font issue. > > The logs I'm familiar with (through previous postings) don't seem to > provide much information...and > look nearly identical in both the working and hanging case...with, of > course the major exception that > the log stops after the hang while the working system logs > additional info. > > > The XWin.log file looks like this: (with the -audit option) > > ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens > winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 1280 h 1024 > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f > winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking > winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits > per pixel > winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1024 > winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide > winAdjustForAutoHide - Found TOP auto-hide taskbar > winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar > winAdjustForAutoHide - FwinCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing > screen resources > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f > winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120 > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff > BPRGB 8 d 32 > winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 > winRandRInit () > winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () > winScreenInit () - returning > winCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing screen resources > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f > winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120 > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff > BPRGB 8 d 32 > winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 > winRandRInit () > winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () > winScreenInit () - returning > :22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34622 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34623 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34624 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34625 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34626 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected > AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:17 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 > connected from IP > 192.168.2.27 port 34627 > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 > > > and /var/dt/Xerrors looks the same (until the hang) for the > working machine > and the ones > that don't: > > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 12 > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 12 > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 12 > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 12 > X Error of failed request: 86 > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 12 > > > > Is there anything else I can try? Did I miss something or are there other > logs to check? > > Thank you. > > - Patrick > > >