Re: XDMCP - Solaris hangs

[Joop <JoopvandeWege at mococo dot nl>]

derk.steggewentz@autodesk.com writes:

> I had the problem of not being able to setup a XDMCP connection to Solaris from cygwin-xfree. A black screen popped up with the hourglass cursor and nothing else happend. I noticed that there are a few similar problems posted on the list but couldn't find an answer. I solved the problem for me and I assume that the other posted problems are similar if not the same. The problem turned out to be that fonts needed by the CDE login screen are not part of the cygwin-xfree distribution and therefore couldn't be found on my windows machine. What I did was starting up a font server on the Solaris box. You can do it on the command line or in a terminal window on the Sun Box using something like:
> /usr/X/bin/xfs -config /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fontserver.cfg -port 7101
> 
> Now if you invoke XWin on cygwin/xfree you have to tell it to use the font server instead of the local fonts:
> 
> ./XWin.exe -query <solaris_box> -from <windows_box> -fp tcp/<solaris_box>:7101 && ./xhost + &
>Should be added to the faq...
>(Q 4.9, http:°cygwin.com/xfree/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-remote-solaris )

I would to like to add the following:
I had  no problems connecting to Solaris8 using Reflection but using
Xfree didn't work except on one server.
After alot of playing around I seemed to have found the problem.
If LOCALE is set to anything else then C then I can't connect using
XFree. Solution: copy (onSolaris box) /usr/dt to /etc/dt and edit
Xconfig, change LANG from undef to C.

Joop

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Joop <JoopvandeWege@mococo.nl>