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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:53:37 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setting up a xdmcp to ubuntu 11.10 w/lightdm
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On 1/25/2012 1:58 AM, Scott Webster Wood wrote:
> Does anyone know how to configure cygwin to do xdmcp to the new ubuntu
> 11.10? It appears to have swapped out the old gdm for lightdm. I found the
> conf option that supposedly turns it on to listen for xdmcp and see an entry
> in the lightdm log that says xdmcp reception is enabled but when I try to
> connect with the same old command I used to use to connect to the gdm
> connection, it doesn't work. What might I be missing? I can't even get a
> response on port 6000. Does it need a hosts.allow entry or something and if
> so what is the syntax for lightdm? I checked for iptables but it showed
> nothing enabled/disabled - is there some other firewall running in the newer
> ubuntu dists?

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