> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Crystal Martin wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > I was successfully using Cygwin to connect my Windows machine to my SuSE 9 until
> > my Windows machine crashed about three weeks ago. Since then, I have not been able
> > to reconnect the two computers. In the meantime, we have new Ethernet switches
> > which I suspect may have triggered the problem? (a colleague who is using the SAME
> > set-up she had previously used successfully can no longer connect either) It only
> > seems broke for SuSE 9. The HP-UX and SuSE 8 machines are all ok. The SuSE 9
> > machine is using KDM and it is set-up to accept external connections.
>
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -query 192.168.10.29 -nodecoration
> > -lesspointer
>
> > AUDIT: Wed May 12 15:53:33 2004: 1544 XWin: client 1 rejected from IP 192.168.10.29
> > � Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
> > �
> > Fatal server error:
> > XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 235664007 failed for display
> > 192.168.10.109:0: cannot open display
XMDCP is very sensible with correct DNS resolution. Make sure 192.168.10.109
has an DNS hostname which does correctly resolve to 192.168.10.109.
bye
ago
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woo hoo! That worked! Thank you very much!!!
crystal