On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Gernot Zander wrote: > I have a host where kdm is running (and allowing sessions from my local > network, where other PCs running linux get their X-Sessions from this > server). > I tried cygwin's X (and start applications from the server with for > instance "xv -display winbox:0", this works fine. > Then I try "X -query server", the server starts, but no kdm login window > appears. The server later writes in the log: > Mar 9 20:55:28 scorpio kdm[1255]: server open failed for 0.0.0.0:0, > giving up > Mar 9 20:55:28 scorpio kdm[31749]: Display 0.0.0.0:0 cannot be opened > > It seems the cygwin's X-Server reports 0.0.0.0 as it's IP?
I had this problem, I overcame it by adding the -from option. get your ip and run XWin.exe -query <hostname> -from <ip> Nikolai
