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RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- To: "'Robert, Francois'" <francois dot robert at it dot unisys dot com>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:56:30 -0400
> I tried Clive's suggestion to use a fixed IP address instead
> of my DHCP
> attributed address, and also I tried the -from option. To no avail :
>
> XWin95 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 \
> -blackpixel 0 -query 129.227.62.246 \
> -from 129.227.62.61 &
> xhost + &
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winCreateB... () - Adjusted width: 1018 height: 715
> winCreateB... () - width: 1018 height: -715
> winCreateB... () - dibsection width: 1018 height: -715
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> Fatal server error:
> XDMCP fatal error: Session declined No valid address
^^^^^^^^^^^ this your TCO issue. XDMCP canot figure out the IP address
on your machine. Can you try the following command
XWin95 :0 -from 129.227.62.61 -query 129.227.62.246 && xhost + &
Suhaib
>
> $ xhost: unable to open display "129.227.62.61:0.0"
>
> BTW, and in case this helps, I also have an NT4.0 deskstop
> machine (which
> also gets its IP from DHCP...) with Cygwin 1.1.8 + XFree 4.0
> (not 4.0.3)
> where I can get the XDMCP working with this very Solaris
> server (although I
> have another weird problem: no text is visible. Looks like it cannot
> find/print fonts. But it does not complain about it). I would
> rather prefer
> to get my Win95 laptop working if I can...
>
> François
>