Hi Ago, Thanks for your help and sorry to bug you some more - I think I'm missing something here. I have a ~5 remote Sun Boxes on which I'd like to pick the least busy and run some X clients. I'm sitting at a Win2k box (mywinhost) on which I type 'Xwin.exe -indirect mysunhost'. The X server starts up on mywinhost and on mysunhost it attempts to run an xdm chooser to list the available suns that support XDMCP sessions. It fails to connect to my Win2k server to display this (Works fine if I try the same on Win98):
Xlib: connection to "mywinhost:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Error: Can't open display: mywinhost:0 So I don't even get to choose a machine to login to. This make it difficult to get any information from the remote sun, especially X info for a display I have not connected to yet. I can't "generate" a key as I have to be connected to the X server to do that. I can "add" a made up key, but I assume I would have to be root to do that, since I've not been able to tell the Sun who I am yet. I want users to be able to do this without my help though. Seems to me that something is broken in my Win2k install as this works like a charm on 98. Did I already mention that ;-) Thanks again, Nick. On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 16:01, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On 24 Jun 2002, Nick THOMPSON wrote: >So it seems I have to get the > cookie correct. Unfortunately, your explaination lost me a little. Do I > have to generate a cookie, The cookie is generated by xdm. After you logged into your linux, sunos, or whatever unix you use, you already have the cookie in the unix session. Try "xauth list $DISPLAY" from a shell in the unix session. To connect from the windows host, set the cookie: "xauth add <the output of xauth list above>" >or should a cookie have been sent as part of the XDMCP connection? it is created by xdm (the login manager) and only know on the remote machine and by your xserver. None of the local xclients know this cookie and can connect. >Why would it work fine on Win95/98 and not Win2k? There should be no difference between 9x and NT