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RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: darko dot palic at gmx dot de, "PD Dr. Edward Wornar" <edi at serbski-institut dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:10:02 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN? X doesnt work too well
across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
thing.
B
--- "Palic, Darko" <darko.palic@gmx.de> wrote:
> Do you use a novell logon?
> If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you try to resolve the
> names of both computers?
> Try to logon onto your linux and try to resolve the other computer name, and
> also the other way (logon on client try to resolve the linux box)
>
> best regards,
> Darko
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks for your answer. I'll mail this personally since I'm not
> > sure it's of common interest for the list.
> >
> > > how do you connect to the mandrake? Via DNS names or via IP?
> >
> > IP. Novell stuff (IPX) performs normally, so does ping and VNC.
> > everything else (ftp, xdm) is terribly slow.
> >
> > > Then the login appears, are tere any differences in the
> > performance during
> > > the session?
> >
> > The login screen appears *very slowly* and after quite some time.
> > Login, wait two minutes for your desktop (just fvwm) to appear.
> > Open a terminal, wait for the window, wait for the shell. And so on ...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Edi
> >
>
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