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RE: too many retransmissions - with Linux Mandrake
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Jeremy Wilkins" <jeb at jeremywilkins dot freeserve dot co dot uk>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:45:21 -0400
- Subject: RE: too many retransmissions - with Linux Mandrake
Jeremy,
For starters, did you restart kdm after you changed the setting in kdmrc?
You should be able to leave out the -from parameer now.
Do you have multiple network cards in your NT machine, or token ring?
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy Wilkins
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:41 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XDM: too many retransmissions - with Linux Mandrake
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get X to connect to linux mandrake running in a virtual
> machine (sadly I don't have access to multiple computers). I'm using the
> command line
> Xwin -once -query linux -from nt
>
> but X times out with the error XDM: too many retransmissions.
>
> It seems that the linux box is refusing the XDMCP connection.
>
> The archives and FAQ both state that I only need to change the [Xdmcp]
> section in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file to Enabled=true. Which I have
> done. But still no luck, I've also tried modifying the settings for xdm,
> setting the port to connect to as 177, and moving the
> /usr/bin/kdm program.
>
> My Xaccess file should allow direct connections from any machines (that
> seems to be the default setup).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jeremy
>