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Re: cygwin-xfree: xdmcp: "no valid address"

Mark Plowman wrote:
> 
<snip> 
> B.T.W.  You mention "broadcast traffic":
> 
> When I do "XWin.exe -query <linux box> -from <Win95-box>" it fails
> with "no valid address".
> 
> When I do "XWin.exe -broadcast -from <Win95-box>" it gives me an
> X-Window, but I don't get a login dialog from the Linux Box.
> 
> I don't know if this is important.
> 

Is the windows box in the /etc/hosts file of the linux box?  In my
experience xdm needs to be able to do a name lookup on the machine that
it is getting the xdmcp requrest from.

Rasjid.
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