Igor, thanks for this info.
I posted the solution a little earlier this evening and based on your comments now makes perfect sense.
I allow dynamic updates to my internal DNS records (silly for two PC's, but whats a geek to do) and it turned out the DNS suffix entry was removed from my desktop PC during all the rearranging.
This translates into xwin/xdmcp referencing an old DNS record and refusing to connect. It's usually the simple stuff isn't it???
Thanks again
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Greg Dotts wrote: I could sure use some help solving a problem with my Cygwin/X (on MS XP Pro SP1 -> Fedora 2 xdmcp connection.
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XDMCP is very sensitive to DNS changes. Make sure that when the server does a reverse DNS lookup on the IP, it gets the same FQDN as supplied by your Cygwin machine. Check /var/log/messages on the server. Do you have a stale /etc/hosts entry, perhaps?
See <http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/> and <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00329.html>. HTH, Igor
-- GDD a.k.a. Greg Dotts
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
