RE: XDMCP Woes + Solaris

["Mark Fisher" <mark dot fisher at practiv dot com>]

You could try using a different run,
http://www.extendingflash.com/utilities/runhide.html
provides an application called "runhide" which does
a similar job as run. This may solve your problem 

mark

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
Sent: 10 December 2004 10:24
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XDMCP Woes + Solaris

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Mark Reis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been banging my head up against a wall trying to get XDMCP working 
> with two solaris machines.
> 
> 
> Setup:
> 
> Machine 1: Solaris 9 - The 9/02 build - not a lot of patches have been 
> applied to bring it to the current level.
> 
> Machine 2: Solaris 9 - The 9/04 build -
> 
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> I attempt to connect to both hosts with the startxdmcp batch file with 
> the run line:
> 
> run XWin -logverbose 3 -query hostname -nodecoration -lesspointer
> 
> 
> Results:
> 
> Now here is the part that is baffling.
> 
> Connecting to machine 1 works fine - Connecting to machine 2 fails. 
> However, Exceed 6.2 is able to connect to both machines just fine.

Have you checked the FAQ. There are some scenarios with XDMCP and Solaris 
resolved.

 
> Additionally - If I remove -nodecoration, Xorg will start, but there is 
> no display shown.

This is  a know problem with the run utility. It will hide console window 
but unfortunatly the main window too. 

bye
	ago
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