You could also try using the "-from <ip addr>" Xwin parameter to send the PC IP address to the *nix box Nick. On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 20:17, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:37, Ben Clewett wrote: > > > Odd. I start it using the CygWin DOS command: > > > > start Win -query %KDE_HOST% -no decoration -less pointer -ftp > > tsp/%KDE_HOST%:7100 > > > > Which has always just worked. Which is why I liked it so much. > > > > But 0.0.0.0:0 can also mean NULL, as in an uninitialised variable. As > > in the previous comment 'kdm_config[26231]: Can't read from core'. > > Hmm, perhaps there is some corription in the config file and KDM isn't reading > relevant portions. > > > I did notice that 'xdmcp' was hard to configure. Had to be completed by > > hand. Setting up font servers, dabbling into very confusing security > > protocols, sometimes getting KDE applications starting on the wrong > > desktop. > > I only did it manually once, just removing comments from the standard config. > > Can you try a second XServer on the same machine using XDMCP to connect to > KDM? > For example Xnest running in the first session, > > > Do you know whether future KDE models might have a more robust mechanism > > set up for xdmcp? > > Sorry, no idea. > > Cheers, > Kevin ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.