New WinXP PC won't show login from Xserver.
Alexander Gottwald
alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Jun 7 09:40:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Chris Powell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am added a WinXP PC to an existing network. All other WinXP PCs have
> cygwin installed and are access an RS6000 running xdm on AIX without any
> problems. After installing cygwin and copying the startxdmcp.bat script
> from a working machine I can get a "grey screen", but the login box never
> opens and after a minute the connection times out and it closes. I started
> with a barebones intall, but have finally installed all packages figuring I
> missing something, but that did not change anything.
>
> Since it's been several years since I set the network up I may have
> forgotten a step somewhere. Is there a permission on the AIX box that needs
> to be set, or is there something else I am missing?
Check http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xdmcp-query
This has some hints for trouble shooting.
bye
ago
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