"Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Eric B. wrote: > > > Thanks for the link. Reading it prompted me to read the XDMCP Howto, which > > helped out significantly. > > > > I followed the instructions in the XDMCP howto, and managed to connect no > > problem from one computer. However, when I follow exactly the same setup > > steps for Cygwin on another computer, I am unable to connect remotely to the > > XDM on my Linux machine. Xwin just opens with a blank screen. Both > > machines are on the same internal subnet and I am issuing the same command > > to both (Xwin -query 192.168.2.1). > > > > Is there any debugging information I can turn on to find out what machine #1 > > is doing that machine #2 is not? I even went as far as copying the Cygwin > > directory from the functional machine to the non-functional one in case > > there was a problem with the install, but that did not make a difference > > either. > > > > Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Eric > > Look in the tail of /var/log/messages on the Linux machine for messages > from [xkg]dm. XDMCP is very sensitive to DNS, so make sure the reverse > DNS lookup from Linux for the IP address of machine #2 returns the correct > FQDN for machine #2. If you don't have access to the DNS configuration, > simply add machine #2 to the /etc/hosts file on the Linux machine. > Igor
Thanks Igor! I can't believe I didn't think of looking in /var/log/messages. I added my hostname/address ot the /etc/hosts file and it resolved properly and loaded without problems. Thanks again! I was tearing my hair out over this one! Eric