Re: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Jack Tanner
I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records. > I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't > Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network. Don't ping. Instead,

Re: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Bob B
I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network. Bob B wrote: Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some

Re: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Jack Tanner
Bob B wrote: Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some queried hosts work fine, others that I try to connect to are doing this oldhostname thing. Maybe the Unix admins have XDMCP on the queried

RE: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Bob B
Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some queried hosts work fine, others that I try to connect to are doing this oldhostname thing. Maybe the Unix admins have XDMCP on the queried hosts screwed

RE: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
does COMPUTERNAME in your windows env show oldhostname or newhostname? reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/f

RE: persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Bob B wrote: does your queried host explicitely set your display to your oldhostname reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cyg

persistent DISPLAY variable

2005-09-15 Thread Bob B
I have been using Cygwin XFree for several years now and it has worked great. I mainly use it on Windows using XWin -ac -query 100.100.100.100 or similar to connect via XDMCP. This has been working great. I am quite experienced in X and Unix and know many of the X config files. At least I thou