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Re: XDMCP issue - no login dialog from Linux to Cygwin
- From: Hislop Family <hislop at optushome dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:02:15 +1000
- Subject: Re: XDMCP issue - no login dialog from Linux to Cygwin
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Harold,
I followed the instructions in there (you know, I thought I'd searched the
archives.....) and XDMCP was already enabled in kdmrc.
I also followed the instructions at
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto, and found that XFS
wasn't running, but that has made no difference.
I'm beginning to think I have a more fundamental problem that should be in
another forum - I'm also having problems getting proftpd to accept
connections, and the log says something like (not at the PC right now, so
this is from memory) that it can't get an IP address for
narbalek.nsw.optushome.com.au. Probably not a surprise, because no doubt
it's doing a DNS search, and I've configured the PC to use DHCP off the
Linksys router. I tried changing the hostname back to just narbalek
(originally I set it to the one above as the installation suggested), but
it came back up on reboot as the full one with domain name. Maybe that's
DHCP doing it, I don't know.
Anyway, I'll research that one some more. Haven't found a
"Linksys/Netgear/etc/etc HOWTO" yet ...
Thanks for your help.
regards - David
David,
You still haven't actually enabled XDMCP yet:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-mandrake-8.1-xdmcp
The default for Mandrake is to use KDM, so the information in the above
FAQ entry should help you out.
Let us know what happens,
Harold
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