XDMCP phenomenon

["Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk dot schulz at kinzesberg dot de>]

Hi Folks,

I am using Cygwin for more than a year now to log into several machines via 
XDMCP.

No I am transferring my admin workstation. And with cygwin on the new 
machine there is a problem I did not have before:

- using "X -broadcast" gives me the login screen of one of my servers, and 
I can work with it as usual.
- using "X -query HOSTNAME" in all variants I know leads to a blank grey 
screen with no login of my servers, even if I substitute HOSTNAME with the 
one that always wins the race at "X -broadcast".

So all of the normal cures against the "no login" problem (like allowing 
XDMCP on the server you want to log into) are of no use - all thas has been 
solved a year before when I started using Cygwin.

I have looked into netstat on the cygwin box. After the "X -query ..." 
there is a connection on port 6000.

Now googling for this phenomenon brought nothing enlightening, googling for 
"XDMCP no login cygwin" only leads to 2 million variants of "enable XDMCP 
on your server".

I am quite stuck. Any hint or help is appreciated.

Dirk



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