XDMCP issue - no login dialog from Linux to Cygwin

[Harold L Hunt II]

David,

I think you might want to just try specifying the IP address of the 
remote machine.  I think you will be successful if you use the IP 
address instead of the hostname in your -query.

Note, when XDMCP is enabled you have to restart XDM/KDM/GDM.  The 
easiest way to ensure that this happens is to restart the machine.

Harold

Hislop Family wrote:
> Harold,
> 
> I followed the instructions in there (you know, I thought I'd searched 
> the archives.....) and XDMCP was already enabled in kdmrc.
> 
> I also followed the instructions at 
> http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto, and found that 
> XFS wasn't running, but that has made no difference.
> 
> I'm beginning to think I have a more fundamental problem that should be 
> in another forum - I'm also having problems getting proftpd to accept 
> connections, and the log says something like (not at the PC right now, 
> so this is from memory) that it can't get an IP address for 
> narbalek.nsw.optushome.com.au. Probably not a surprise, because no doubt 
> it's doing a DNS search, and I've configured the PC to use DHCP off the 
> Linksys router. I tried changing the hostname back to just narbalek 
> (originally I set it to the one above as the installation suggested), 
> but it came back up on reboot as the full one with domain name. Maybe 
> that's DHCP doing it, I don't know.
> 
> Anyway, I'll research that one some more. Haven't found a 
> "Linksys/Netgear/etc/etc HOWTO" yet ...
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> regards - David
> 
> 
>> David,
>>
>> You still haven't actually enabled XDMCP yet:
>>
>> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-mandrake-8.1-xdmcp 
>>
>>
>>
>> The default for Mandrake is to use KDM, so the information in the 
>> above FAQ entry should help you out.
>>
>>
>> Let us know what happens,
>>
>> Harold
> 
> 
> 
> 
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