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Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux
- From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:36:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux
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I run "ipconfig" on the local Windows PC, which give me the current IP
(delievered from dhcp). Isn't that correct value to use?
That's not the correct value for 2 reasons...
1) Because you're using a VPN to access the remote machine, it probably is
separated from the rest of the 'net by a firewall. Try logging into the
remote machine and pinging the local machine's IP address. Do you get a
response?
2) Even if the remote machine could reach the local machine via the
DHCP-assigned IP address, doing so would circumvent the VPN (the X traffic
would go _around_ the VPN instead of _through_ it).
You really need to talk to someone who is knowlegable about your VPN setup
to help you figure out the IP address that's associated with the far-end of
the VPN tunnel.
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