XWin won't work

[Harold L Hunt II]

José,

Can you still ping the both the address and the hostname after changing 
hosts?

Harold

jreis23@clix.pt wrote:

> After I add the line 'n.n.n.n hostname' to the 'hosts' file in win2K, no
> matter what type (numeric or name) of address I give to 'xwin -query', XWin
> don't pass from the busy pointer.
> If i remove the libe from 'hosts' file XWin works with the name address.
> 
> Thanks,
> José (sorry about the personal reply)
> 
> 
>>If you are really adding the line as you say, it should not be causing a 
> 
> 
>>problem when accessing the host via the numeric address.
>>
>>I think you must be doing something else that are not noticing or 
>>thinking is significant.  Any ideas on something else you might be doing 
> 
> 
>>that could have an effect?
>>
>>Does XWin -query hostname work?
>>
>>By the way "hostname" is probably not a valid hostname... I hope that 
>>isn't what you are using in hosts.
>>
>>Harold
>>
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