km4hr wrote: > Well, I have now turned on all relevant ports in the Windows firewall. > I still can't connnect. > I turned on port 177(UDP) and 6000-6006(TCP). I even turned on extra > ports as recommend by > http://www.starnet.com/xwin32kb/What_ports_need_to_be_opened_for_XDMCP/ > this source. > > I'm about out of ideas. I love to hear some more.
Perhaps you missed my suggestions here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-02/msg00222.html Try the telnet check first to see if the port is accessible from Windows because that only takes a few seconds. (Make sure you run the cygwin telnet.exe) > I don't know how firewalls work but on the linux host side (CentOS) > simplyturning off the firewall did not open the ports. I had to turn > the firewall on and specify which ports to open. Otherwise no computers > could connect via xdmcp over the network. I've not used CentOS, but other distros I've used start with a default set of firewall rules that just block all externally initiated connections. Turning off the firewall actually leaves those rules in force. Turning on the firewall enables more complex rules. If they didn't do this, then you'd be wide open to attack before you'd configured the system. You can disable the firewall completely, but I think it would be irresponsible to post how here. If you must, man iptables is your friend. Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- 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/