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List:       cygwin-xfree
Subject:    Re: XDMCP - Solaris hangs
From:       Joop <JoopvandeWege () mococo ! nl>
Date:       2001-12-20 9:17:48
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derk.steggewentz@autodesk.com writes:

> I had the problem of not being able to setup a XDMCP connection to Solaris from \
> cygwin-xfree. A black screen popped up with the hourglass cursor and nothing else \
> happend. I noticed that there are a few similar problems posted on the list but \
> couldn't find an answer. I solved the problem for me and I assume that the other \
> posted problems are similar if not the same. The problem turned out to be that \
> fonts needed by the CDE login screen are not part of the cygwin-xfree distribution \
> and therefore couldn't be found on my windows machine. What I did was starting up a \
> font server on the Solaris box. You can do it on the command line or in a terminal \
>                 window on the Sun Box using something like:
> /usr/X/bin/xfs -config /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fontserver.cfg -port 7101
> 
> Now if you invoke XWin on cygwin/xfree you have to tell it to use the font server \
> instead of the local fonts: 
> ./XWin.exe -query <solaris_box> -from <windows_box> -fp tcp/<solaris_box>:7101 && \
> ./xhost + & Should be added to the faq...
> (Q 4.9, http:°cygwin.com/xfree/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-remote-solaris )

I would to like to add the following:
I had  no problems connecting to Solaris8 using Reflection but using
Xfree didn't work except on one server.
After alot of playing around I seemed to have found the problem.
If LOCALE is set to anything else then C then I can't connect using
XFree. Solution: copy (onSolaris box) /usr/dt to /etc/dt and edit
Xconfig, change LANG from undef to C.

Joop

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Joop <JoopvandeWege@mococo.nl>


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