Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 18:43, Louis Selvon wrote: > Hi Ken: > > Thanks for a quick reply. > > >I understand you have downloaded cygwin onto a PC and you want to sign > into it. > > X -broadcast > > or > > X -query I.P.address.here > > Louis> Yes I have downloaded cgiwin and installed it on Master PC. However the > above commands does not bring up the Linux login screen that is installed on > my slave PC. > > >In order to make this work with gdm using gdmconfig: > > look under options on the left, click on expert. > select on xdcmp tab > click enable button > select chooser tab. > select broadcast query > add your host to list in broadcast query. > > Louis> Yes I finally saw these tabs. I also saw the gdm.config file that had > "xdcmp" set to false. Anyway I went the graphical way. > > I have enabled "xdcmp". However I do not know what to enter for the host. Is > it the IP address of the Network card on my master PC ?
>This should now work: >X -query ipaddress Louis> Still nothing from Linux can be seen after typing the above command. For the IP address from the above command I entered the one that Linux System settings told me it was. In Linux XDCMP setup for the "Broadcast Query" I just entered the IP address of the master pc network card IP. Any other suggestions !! > Also for the networking side I can ping the IP address of the Network card on > the slave PC but I am still having problems mapping the drives of the slave PC > for Windows 2000 onto the master PC. >the quick way is to enter the ip address into your hosts file. Cannot >remember windows details but the entry looks like: >1.2.3.4 masterpc >1.2.3.4 is your ip address obviously. >If you want to test it quickly do a 'net view \\1.2.3.4' (ipaddress >again) on the dos command line. This should show you the server ids >that you can see. Louis> I also have no idea what the host file for Windows 2000 is. Searching the web for this, but if anyone else know please let me know. Incidently where is the host file located for Linux ? Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
