I'm hoping somebody can give me a hand with this, I'm using the latest cygwin xfree, and have read the FAQ and tried everything in it with no success.
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:25 -0600, Robert Campbell wrote: > Hi all.... my first question to this forum so be gentle. > > I have two problems that seem to be related. > > I have a home LAN setup with two FC4 boxes. > > On the first FC4 box, I have setup XDMCP, and can connect to the XDMCP > via Xnest on the second box. > > This works: > Xnest :1 -query <ip address> > > This tells me that XDMCP seems to be working properly on the first FC4 > machine. > > However, using cygwin/Xfree on an XP Pro notebook I cannot connect. > I continue to get the 'Too many retransmissions' message. > > I've tried the following combinations of commands: > Xwin -query <ip address> > Xwin -query <ip address> -from <local ip address> > > I have disabled completely the firewall on the XP Pro laptop, and have > no clue as to why it's not connecting. > > Curiously enough though, I can bring the same laptop into the office > connect it to the lan and use > Xwin -query <ip address> > To start an XDMCP session to a Solaris 8 machine. > > The second question is related, it involves XDMCP from the same laptop > to the same sun machine over a VPN. > > Whenever I initialize an openvpn connection to the office, I can ping, > telnet, surf the local intranet, etc, etc. all over the vpn with no > difficulty. However, when I try to connect to the Solaris 8 host > via xdmcp, I get the "Too many retransmissions" error after a couple of > minutes. I've tried every set of Xwin command combinations I can think > of, with no success. > > Does anybody have any ideas ? > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
