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Re: XWin fails connecting to XDM for sending wrong source-IP
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:39:24 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: XWin fails connecting to XDM for sending wrong source-IP
- References: <4265C88D.5060408@freenet.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, norm wrote:
> I was trying to connect to a Linux-server (Debian/Sarge, XFree86 4.3)
> from my Windows-box (Win XP Pro SP2, cygwin 1.5.15-1, xwin 6.8.2.0-1).
> All I got was a blank X-screen. I thought it may be a font-problem and
> tried:
>
> XWin -query 192.168.200.200 -fp "tcp/192.168.200.200:7100"
>
> After that, netstat gave me the following two lines on the Linux-box
>
> tcp 0 1 192.168.200.200:1091 192.168.68.1:x11 SYN_SENT
> tcp 0 0 192.168.200.200:font-service 192.168.200.2:1596 CONNECTED
>
> where .200.200 is the appserver, .200.2 the winbox and .68.1 something I
> never heard of. If you specify the right source-IP with the -from
> argument, everything works fine.
> Do you already know this? Is there any reason for this behavior I
> haven't thought of? If not, could someone please confirm, that this is a
> bug?
You can specify the address to use with the -from parameter
XWin -query 192.168.200.200 -from 192.168.200.2 -fp "tcp/192.168.200.200:7100"
bye
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