Host Chooser Program?

[J S]

>
>On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:18:00PM +0000, J S wrote:
>
> > Tim,
> >
> > This is a really good, simple GUI program which will make life a lot 
>easier
> > for my users. I tried the cygwin connection tool on win 98 and 2000, but 
>it
> > didn't work on neither, complaining of missing DLLs so I guess that 
>needs
> > more testing.
> >
> > The xlauncher worked well on W2k, and did run on Win95 (configured with 
>a
> > fixed IP address - not dhcp) but didn't "connect" so I was just 
>wondering
> > if that was a win95 bug or not?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JS.
>
>It looks OK, its a pity it isn't in a free C/C++ though :)
>
>Under the "other" tab, there is an area down the bottom which may
>display an IP address. Does it?

Yes it does.

>If not, then the xlauncher program hasn't worked out what the IP of the
>machine is, and won't pass the -from parameter, so will leave it to
>cygwin to work it out.
>
>Does X start when you use XWin -query yourhostIPhere -from 
>yourdesktopIPhere
>? (from a bash prompt, with the path set correctly ;) )

It does if I have a fixed IP address.

>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim.


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