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Re: XDMCP issue - no login dialog from Linux to Cygwin


David,

I think you might want to just try specifying the IP address of the remote machine. I think you will be successful if you use the IP address instead of the hostname in your -query.

Note, when XDMCP is enabled you have to restart XDM/KDM/GDM. The easiest way to ensure that this happens is to restart the machine.

Harold

Hislop Family wrote:
Harold,

I followed the instructions in there (you know, I thought I'd searched the archives.....) and XDMCP was already enabled in kdmrc.

I also followed the instructions at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto, and found that XFS wasn't running, but that has made no difference.

I'm beginning to think I have a more fundamental problem that should be in another forum - I'm also having problems getting proftpd to accept connections, and the log says something like (not at the PC right now, so this is from memory) that it can't get an IP address for narbalek.nsw.optushome.com.au. Probably not a surprise, because no doubt it's doing a DNS search, and I've configured the PC to use DHCP off the Linksys router. I tried changing the hostname back to just narbalek (originally I set it to the one above as the installation suggested), but it came back up on reboot as the full one with domain name. Maybe that's DHCP doing it, I don't know.

Anyway, I'll research that one some more. Haven't found a "Linksys/Netgear/etc/etc HOWTO" yet ...

Thanks for your help.

regards - David


David,

You still haven't actually enabled XDMCP yet:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-mandrake-8.1-xdmcp



The default for Mandrake is to use KDM, so the information in the above FAQ entry should help you out.


Let us know what happens,


Harold




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