My co-worker has been using Cygwin XFree86 to XWin to his linux system from his Win2K client. Very cool. He convinced me to start using Cygwin. So I think it would be cool to be able to have our two WinXP clients XWin to our department server with RedHat 9 Linux.
I meticulously followed the linux doc project "how to" on configuring a Xwin Host. I have configured font server on the linux host. My co-worker's Win2K box can Xwin to the linux box just fine (gets a login prompt, and then the linux desktop). However, we the two WinXP boxes that can't. We get the checkerboard screen and no login prompt everytime. All Win boxes were set up with a full install of Cygwin (install all, not default). All Win boxes are the same hardware configuration, so the only difference I can discern is a different OS. My co-worker insists that although he has been using Cygwin for months, he did not do any special configuration on his Win2K box. What gives? The command used on all clients is the same in each case XWin -querry <IPaddress of the linux box> or XWin :0 -querry <IPaddress of the linux box> There is tons of docs on how to set up the host, but very little on the client. The implication being that its simple stupid and there is not a lot of configuration needed to be done. I even downloaded a third party XWindows client StarNet X-Win32. It has lots of fancy menus that let you specify querry, indirect, broadcast etc. None of those modes allow the WinXP boxes to connect, my co-worker can XWin into his Linux system and our department linux server all day long. I'm at ropes end, anyone have suggestions? The mail archives don't seem to address the peculiar situation where some people can login and some can't.
