XDMCP

[Harold Hunt]

Ryan,

Something must be messed up.  Cygwin/XFree86 performance with XDMCP should
be the same as with any Linux machine.  Your Windows 98 TCP/IP network
settings are probably messed up, or the network cable connecting your
Windows machine to the hub is bad.  I had a bad cable once that worked fine
at 10 Mbit/s, but at 100 Mbit/s it caused my samba shares to take about 3
minutes to logon and file transfers were extremely slow.  Yet, the switch
thought the cable was fine.  Long story short, try a new cable, and/or plug
in through a different hub.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ryan F.
> Clarke
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:17 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: XDMCP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with XDMCP and Cygwin/XFree86. I have two
> computers, a
> Pentium III 500 running Win98 and a 6x86 150 running RedHat 7.1.
> I'm trying
> to XDMCP using Cygwin/XFree86 from the Windows machine to the
> Linux machine
> over a 100 Mbps LAN. What's happening is that Cygwin/XFree86 is REALLY
> REALLY slow. It takes around 10 minutes from login to the actual GNOME
> desktop loading up. When I tried this using the Linux setup that I have on
> the Windows machine, it worked perfect. Is Cygwin/XFree86 slow or could
> something be messed up?
>
> Ryan Clarke
> sniper@wpi.edu
>