XWin --query

Greg Freemyer freemyer-ml@NorcrossGroup.com
Mon Oct 13 17:07:00 GMT 2003


I have not installed any new hardware, and both server and client
machines have only one NIC.  (Both are standard wired NICs.)

I did update the Linux box with the latest patches recently, that may be
causing the problem, but somehow I think it is the cygwin/xfree86 end.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:15, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Did you also just get a wireless networking card or another network 
> card?  The reason I am asking is that you may now need to use the -from 
> parameter to indicate the return address that should be sent to the 
> remote machine.  Please indicate if you have only one network card.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > I have been using "XWin --query node_name" for a while.
> > 
> > Last week I updated to the currently released cygwin and xfree86
> > binaries.
> > 
> > The XWin --query is now only bringing up a X display, but it is not
> > showing the KDM login screen I'm used to seeing.
> > 
> > If I look on the Linux box I'm querying, I see that it is trying to
> > connect back to the cygwin/xfree box, but it is unable to open the
> > display.
> > 
> > Do I need to do somethnig else?
> > 
> > Greg
> 



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