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RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Darryl Wagoner" <darryl at shecora dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:24:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
Darryl,
According to the Linux XMDCP HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/gdm.html), the port number is
177, not 117.
I don't know what else to tell you. Try using kdm instead.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Darryl Wagoner
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XDMCP starting problems on Win2k & RH 7.2
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I think I have followed all the directions, but all I get is a
> blank X screen with a pointer cursors.
>
> The request doesn't seem to be getting to the Linux system.
>
> I did a "tcpdump port 117" and I don't see any packets at all going
> to Linux.
>
> In the docs it says to change gdm.conf
>
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=1
>
> but all the other options have the Boolean true so I followed suit.
>
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=true
>
> I did do a netstat to make sure xdm was listening on the correct port.
>
> Is it possible that Xwin.exe is sending to a different port?
>
> thanks
>
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