"Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

win95.exe is Harold test server release

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [ mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au ]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:01 PM
> To: Robert, Francois; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
> 
> 
> As the "old" Win95 server _is known to be faulty_ Can I suggest you
> start with Harold's test server release, and then work from there?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert, Francois" <francois.robert@it.unisys.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:46 AM
> Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
> 
> 
> I am sincerely sorry to report that none of the suggestion from Clive
> and
> Suhaib did not succeed :
> 
> > Can you try adding -ac to the XWin command line
> > instead of using xhost (temporarily..)
> 
> > XWin95 :0 -from 129.227.62.61  -query 129.227.62.246  && xhost + &
> 
> So, to sum up the situation, here are the various stuff I 
> have tried so
> far,
> to no avail :
> 
> DHCP vs. fixed IP
> 
> -from <my ip> vs. nothing
> 
> -ac vs. & host +
> 
> XWin95 ... && xhosts + & vs.
> XWin95 .... & xhosts + &
> 
> export OS="" vs. export OS=" " vs. no OS environnement variable
> 
> XWin95 :0 ...
> 
> Clive buttler suggested a possible explanation in :
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg00325.html
> and in :
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg00328.html
> But none of them seem convincing, since -ac still does not allow XDMCP
> to
> work. So I am back at square one (well, almost...)
> 
> Any other suggestion is thus still welcome...
> 
> François
> 
>