RE: XDMCP - Solaris hangs

[derk dot steggewentz at autodesk dot com]

As Bo Zhang pointed out in an earlier posting, Solaris (at least version 8) has a fontserver running by default on port 7100. So there is no need to start one on your own on the solaris box. This should do it (on your win/xfree box):

./XWin.exe -query <solaris_box> -from <windows_box> -fp tcp/<solaris_box>:7100

To make text look a bit nicer on my windows box I changed some font settings on the Solaris box, in the file /usr/dt/config/C/Xresources.

Derk



-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Gilles [mailto:jgilles@glmultimedia.com]
Sent: December 17, 2001 7:58 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XDMCP - Solaris hangs


derk.steggewentz@autodesk.com writes:

> I had the problem of not being able to setup a XDMCP connection to Solaris from cygwin-xfree. A black screen popped up with the hourglass cursor and nothing else happend. I noticed that there are a few similar problems posted on the list but couldn't find an answer. I solved the problem for me and I assume that the other posted problems are similar if not the same. The problem turned out to be that fonts needed by the CDE login screen are not part of the cygwin-xfree distribution and therefore couldn't be found on my windows machine. What I did was starting up a font server on the Solaris box. You can do it on the command line or in a terminal window on the Sun Box using something like:
> /usr/X/bin/xfs -config /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fontserver.cfg -port 7101
> 
> Now if you invoke XWin on cygwin/xfree you have to tell it to use the font server instead of the local fonts:
> 
> ./XWin.exe -query <solaris_box> -from <windows_box> -fp tcp/<solaris_box>:7101 && ./xhost + &

Thanks a lot !

Should be added to the faq...
(Q 4.9, http:°cygwin.com/xfree/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-remote-solaris )

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Julien Gilles