Re: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 07/09/2009 11:37, MÃrten Gustafsson wrote:
> When trying to connect to a linux sytem from a Vista using xdmcp i get a
> strange error.
>
> 2009-09-07 12:06:51 XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 173248003
> failed for display 192.168.0.102:0: cannot open display
>
> As you can see from my network config, I have no adapter on this network
> address. I am using a wirless connection with ipadress 192.168.1.106. The
> same version of cygwin works flawlessly from a wired XP box.

Hmm....

You may find that using the -from command line parameter (documented in 'man 
Xserver') to force the local address used may help, but it's still a bit 
mysterious where this address comes from...

Perhaps you could oblige me with the output from Corinna's test program which 
dumps getaddrinfo output [1]

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-07/msg00002.html

>        âfrom localâaddress
>                specifies the local address to connect from (useful if the connecting host has multiple
>                network  interfaces).  The localâaddress may be expressed in any form acceptable to the
>                host platformâs gethostbyname(3) implementation.

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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