"Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert, Francois [ mailto:francois.robert@it.unisys.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:41 PM
> To: 'Enoch Wu'
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
> 
> 
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : Enoch Wu [ mailto:ewu@eskimo.com ]
> ...
> > Meanwhile, check to see if you have an over
> > zealous virus checker. If so, temporarily disable
> > or exit out of the virus checker.
> ...
> Short answer : No I don't.
> Long answer : In fact, the virus checker I used to have, 
> trashed the system
> to the point that it would not boot anymore. I was forced to 
> reinstall the
> OS, at which point I decided I forgot about virus checking. 
> So much for
> internal corporate policies...
> 


Are you using XDMCP behind the firewall?  Are you all tcp connection, even
internal
connections, are first routed to firewall?  If so that might be your
problem?

Suhaib