Re: XDMCP issues

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Loic Domaigne wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> > > Does have someone an idea what's going wrong?
> > >
> > It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box
> > won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display.  I do what you;re
> > trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like
> > this but it may well be that XP is being more 'secure'.
> >
> > You can 'ping my_XP_box' from the Linux box OK can you?
>
> Your post invited me to have a look at the /var/log/messages on my Linux
> Box. I saw that kdm couldn't map the IP to the hostname of my XP box. I
> made a corresponding entry in /etc/hosts...
>
> Et voilà! IT'S WORKING!!!
>
> Thanks a lot Chris. You put me on the right path. The solaris 9 box is also
> working (I had the same problem as on the Linux box).

For the record,
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-audit-client-rejected>
could've helped too.  The message is not quite the same, though -- time to
update the FAQ?
	Igor
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