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RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow


Helo,

how do you connect to the mandrake? Via DNS names or via IP?
Then the login appears, are tere any differences in the performance during
the session?

best reards,
Darko

> Hello,
>
> sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I was unable to find information in
> the mailing-list archives/Howtos.
>
> I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients
> running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the
> win98 clients,
> XDMCP is *extremely* slow so it literary takes minutes to get the
> login screen
> and log in. They all are in my /etc/hosts file, they
> seem to have exactly the same protocols running, but while some react
> very snappily, others are extremely sluggish. Maybe anyone can give
> me a clue what might be wrong? (I am not familiar with
> TCP/IP interna, so I'm not capable of interpreting the output of
> tcpdump but I can mail it to anybody willing to help.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Edi
>


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