CYGWin reliability

[Linux]

Thanks for your interest/help. During the times when I cant connect using
CYGwin using xwin.exe -query x.x.x.x -from x.x.x.x I get a new screen with a
croshatch background ikt stays there for a while, 10-20 seconds, then
dissapears. If I try multiple times I get the same responce. If I try XWin32
(starnet) or the NCD terminal then I can connect. Going back to the Win2K PC
dosent work. I leave it for an hour or reboot it some times then it may go.
I am sorry to be vague but I have not discovered any disernable pattern to
this madness.

Many thanks

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: PD Dr. Edward Wornar [mailto:edi@serbski-institut.de]
Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 20:30
To: linux@dounsix.co.nz
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: CYGWin reliability


> I have been using Cygwin for the last 4 months now and find it reasonably
> good to use, however.
> I have been having continuous problems getting it to connect to the server
> box.
> The configuration is Server: Redhat 7.2 (was7.1) running xdm > Win2K
Server.
> Sometimes it will connect sometimes it wont connect at all.
> I updated the Cygwin installation last week.
> I have an eval copy of Xwin32 which works fine and my NCD300 terminal also
> connects every time.
> Is there any tricks? Have I missed anything?

We're using Cygwin/XFree86 4.1 at work to connect to a linux server and
find it *extremely* reliable: Over 20 boxes and no such problems yet.

What message do you get? Are these problems timeouts, refused connections,
do other
things work from a box when it can't connect? What else is running on these
boxes?
There's a lot of "utilities" and virus scanners out there which severely
damage
the network stuff on Windows. 

To me, it looks more like a network problem than a cygwin problem.

HTH

Edi


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