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Re: Starting CDE from Solaris


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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