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Re: xwinclip authorisation problem with remote hosts using XDMCP
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:26:22 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: xwinclip authorisation problem with remote hosts using XDMCP
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> This is wrong. 127.0.0.1 is the ip adress for localhost. On every computer,
> 127.0.0.1 points to itself. Say you have a windows host with ip 192.168.26.201
> and a unix host with ip 192.168.26.202, they can only communicate with these
> ip adresses. Connecting 127.0.0.1 from the windows host will connect to the
> windows host and connecting 127.0.0.1 from the unix host will connect to the
> unix host.
Ooops, I should not write mails that early. Since the XServer is running on
the windows host, xhost 127.0.0.1 will allow the windows host to connect to
the Xserver.
bye
ago
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