XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients

[Harold L Hunt II]

Kirk,


Woellert, Kirk D. wrote:

> I tried the command:
> 
> XWin -query <linux-box-ip> -from <window-box-ip> 
> No luck.
> BTW, is there more to do on the client side than merely install the full
> Cygwin (and hence full XFree86 package)? Again, maybe I missed something.
> Here is the log file from one of the WinXP machines. FYI, the guy that can
> connect has the same hardware configuration, he just happens to be on Win2K.
> I see some msgs that look funny, but nothing that I recall from the docs
> that point to an issue.

No, nothing special needs to be done for an installation.

Do the machines have more than one network interface, perhaps two 
ethernet connections (e.g. 1x100 Mbit, 1x1000Mbit), or perhaps wired and 
wireless, or bluetooth?  Anything like that?  The reason is that you 
have to tell the "-from ip" parameter the actualy ip that XWin.exe is 
attempting to connect on.  So, if you have more than one ip you must 
tell it the correct ip for the proper interface.

Are you the admin of the linux machine?  If so, try running kdm/gdm/xdm 
with verbose output and/or checking the log messages on the machine. 
You need to figure out if the linux server is actively rejecting the 
connection or not even getting an attempt in the first place.

Another consideration would be that since your "old" computers work and 
your "new" computers don't work, then maybe you've got the linux machine 
setup to reject xdm connections from any machines not in a list and that 
list has not been updated to include the new machines.

Have you reported yet on whether you can ssh into the box and tunnel 
apps back to your machines that cannot login to XDM directly?  That 
would at least confirm that networking between the two boxes is 
reasonably stable.

Hope that helps,

Harold