RE: XDMCP Session Declined

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

I don't have a Windows 95 machine, so this one is all you Alexander :)

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander
> Gottwald
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: XFree86/Cygwin Mailing list
> Subject: XDMCP Session Declined
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm investigating some problems when connecting from XWin to xdm.
> On one of my machines (Win95) the query failed with the error
> message 
> XDMCP fatal error: Session declined No valid address
> 
> the reason seems to be an not completely initialized interface.
> After compiling os/access.c with the extra define -DDEF_SELF_DEBUG,
> XWin prints some additional info.
> 
> On Win2k the output of this section is 
> Xserver: DefineSelf(): ifname = lo, addr = 127.0.0.1
> Xserver: DefineSelf(): ifname = eth0, addr = 192.168.26.212
> Xserver: DefineSelf(): ifname = eth0, baddr = 192.168.26.255
> 
> On Win95 (the not working host) it's only
> Xserver: DefineSelf(): ifname = lo, addr = 127.0.0.1
> 
> setting the -from does not work since this is only used in xdmcp 
> initalisation.
> 
> I want to know if someone got xdmcp working with win95 or if 
> this error
> occurs on other windows version too.
> 
> I also tracked the problem down to some functions in 
> lib/xtrans/Xtrans.c
> but since the machine i'm trying to debug is very slow I just 
> wanted to 
> ask, if someone has an idea whats wrong here.
> 
> bye 
>     ago
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