Xfree issues under Windows 2000

[Ken C]

I'm hoping someone can help me out with a problem that I have unsuccessfully 
been trying to solve for a few weeks.  I'm a fairly experienced Windows guy 
trying to learn more about Linux, just to provide a little background.

I have a Mandrake 8.2 box and a Windows 2000 (SP1) box running Cygwin and 
Xfree, and Xfree runs fine on the W2K box, but will not connect to the 
Mandrake box - I just get the gray screen and 'X' mouse pointer.

The odd thing is, I've installed MicroImages MI/X on that same W2K system 
and it connects right away (it's just not as stable as Cygwin/Xfree).  
Telnet, ssh and Samba connections work fine between the two.   I can also 
connect to the Mandrake box from Cygwin/Xfree installed on a Windows 2000 
system in another location after opening up the appropriate ports on the 
firewall.  I've had no trouble connecting other W2K systems using 
Cygwin/Xfree to other Mandrake 8.2, 9.0, RedHat 8.0, SGI and Sun systems in 
other locations.

The Mandrake box is connected to a Netgear switch through CAT-5, and the 
Windows box is using a Belkin 802.11b wireless card to connect, at least 
during most of the time I've been working on this.  I've disabled the 
on-board ethernet so that the only active card was the Belkin, but I've also 
run a CAT-5 cable to the switch and disabled the Belkin card, but with no 
success - I get the same result.

Any suggestions on getting this to work is greatly appreciated!

Ken

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