Hosts and X0.hosts

[Terje J. Hanssen]

1. Hosts
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I have used C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts for a long time on a 
Windows 2000 terminal server. But for some or another reason the Hosts 
file suddenly is being deleted from the system, and again as soon as I 
recreate it. I have tried to limit the file access to system 
administrator only without succeed.  And I haven't found out yet if 
there can be or have been installed some kind of antivirus or spyware 
program that detects the Hosts file as a virus file and cause that it is 
being deleted.

a) Has someone experienced this before or any idea to solve it?

I saw that C:\cygwin\etc\Hosts was a link to the above Hosts file. 
Because of the above problem, I replaced the link with the real Hosts 
file itself.
Now I try to create a remote connection from a cygwin/X xterm using the 
following procedure:

startxwin.bat
xterm
X :2 -query remote_hostname

The system reports and exit the command in the xterm as follows.
"Fatal server error:
Xserver: -query unknown host: remote_hostname"

b) Doesn't Cygwin/X read this latter Hosts file?


2. X0.hosts
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To let queried remote xdm/dtlogin/gdm/kdm get access to the local Cygwin 
X server, I wonder if the syntax for the content in 
C:/cygwin/etc/X0.hosts should be "remote_hostname" only or 
"remote_hostname +", alternatively "remote_host_ip" only or 
"remote_host_ip +"?


Regards,
Terje J. Hanssen