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Re: Starting CDE from Solaris
- To: Mika dot Laitio at sysline dot com
- Subject: Re: Starting CDE from Solaris
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:58:18 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 Mika.Laitio@sysline.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am newbie to XFree86 in Windows environment, and I have got it up
> succesfully.
> Now I would like to get the CDE-Logon screen from Solaris to my Windows.
> (We have basic installation of Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.8 with CDE-desktop
> manager in the Sun Sparc-stations)
> If I give following command
>
> xwin -noreset -screen 0 1152 864 -query <solaris-ip> -from <my-ip>
>
[snip]
> Fatal server error:
> XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 6 failed for display
> 194.197.60.169:0:
> Cannot open display
This seems to be a authentication failure. Can you please try starting the
server without the -noreset option. I guess when the loginmanager wants
to establish the new xauth-cookie, it will fail since the server was _not_
reset.
bye
ago
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