XDMCP issues

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:10:54AM +0200, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> Hello everybody, 
> 
> I'm trying to get a remote Linux/KDE desktop from my XP box using cygwin. 
> Following the FAQ and various posts, I have proceeded as follows:
> 
> 1) I made sure that XDMCP is enable on the linux box.
> 
> 2) In a cygwin shell, I started XWin.exe:
> $ XWin.exe -query linux_box -from my_XP_box
> 
> 3) I got a X-window with grey shading, but no kde logging session. 
> 
> 4) After a while, I obtained the error message: 
> Fatal server error:
> XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 329792025 failed for display
> my_XP_box:0: cannot open display
> 
> 
> Does have someone an idea what's going wrong?  
> 
It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box
won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display.  I do what you;re
trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like
this but it may well be that XP is being more 'secure'.

You can 'ping my_XP_box' from the Linux box OK can you?

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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