RE: Can't open display...

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I really do not know what else to tell you.  You mentioned in your previous
mail Omni-X has probloems too, is this correct?  I suspect it is your
machine related.  editing startxwin.bat and REM out everything except PATH,
DISPLAY, xwin and xterm command lines and How about cd to
\cygwin\usr\X116\bin (assuming thar is where you install xwn), then from DOS
shell type startxwin.

How old is your Win2K installation?  What machine? If Omni-X had problems to
DISPLAy too then I will suggest if you have access to another win2k machine
try on it Cygwin-xfree.  If it works on another machine, then you might
consider runing Win2K Setup CD with Upgrade Option on your workstation.
Something looks very strange with your Win2K.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Greiner
To: Suhaib Siddiqi
Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Sent: 3/30/2001 9:10 PM
Subject: RE: Can't open display...

Wow that was alot that I didn't know .. unfortunatly everything checks
out.
I can ping 127.0.0.1 .. The localhost file does exist and Ip security is
not
on.. hopefully you have another Idea because I am stumped
-jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib
Siddiqi
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:58 PM
To: ''Jeremy Greiner ' '; ''cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com ' '
Subject: RE: Can't open display...


 Jeremy
one more thing can you check.  Have you by chance Windows IP Security
turned
on? This crap works best only if you are using M$ Windows servers,
otherwise
you run into a lot of problems.  When i first installed Win2K RC2 I
enabled
Windows 2K IP Security and a lot of applications which depends on IP
broke.
You can find check

right mouse on My Network Places on your Desktop then choose Properties

from Network and Dial-up Connections, right mouse button on Local Area
Connections and choose Properties

Higlight Internal Protocl (TCP/IP) and choose Properties Button

Then Advance Button

Go to Options Tab

Higlight IP Security and you should have "Do not use IPSEC" box checked.
If
not then check it and uncheck the "Use this IP security Policy" box.

Then highlight TCP/IP filtering and make sure "Enable TCP/IP Filtering
(All
Adapters) box is unchecked.

Suhaib


-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi
To: 'Jeremy Greiner '; 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com '
Sent: 3/30/2001 7:44 PM
Subject: RE: Can't open display...

> I also tried to connect to a comercial X Server (Omni-x) that did not
>work either.
^^^^ does it mean Omini-X also has Display problem on your machine?
If so, I am confident the problem is related your Windows2k
installation.  Something is very very fishy on your system.  After XWin
starts from startxwin.bat, it sets the DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0 (which
localhost), and you should be able to open at least local x-clients.

Did you check in your \winnt\system32\drivers\etc directory if you have
hosts file, if you do make srue you have the 127.0.0.1 localhost entry
in it.  Can you ping to, from a DOS shell, ping 127.0.0.1?

In the 4.0.3 release, you may find harold test 9,
/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin95.exe, rename XWin.exe to XWin.exe.orig and copy
XWin95.exe to Win.exe, and trty startxwin.bat from a DOS shell.

Suhaib


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Greiner
To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Sent: 3/30/2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Can't open display...

I have tried various things to get xfree to work on me system: (win2k)
Tried the start up script..
Tried adding the sleep to the start up script
Starting things manually (Xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0)
tried using my real ip and computer name
removed then reinstalled cygwin and made sure it was unix mode
I read this problem in the archives and I am only asking because I tried
everything in the archive and it still does not work.
I also tried to connect to a comercial X Server (Omni-x) that did not
work
either.
I am running win2k
Xfree stable version 4.0.3 (pre compiled)
latest Cygwin binary release as of today ..
any help would be apreciated
-jeremy