Re: XDM: too many retransmissions

[Leif Thuresson <LThuresson@rsasecurity.com>]

I don't think I have got the "XDM: too many retransmissions"
error, but my experience is that XDMCP and X-win32 in
particular is very picky about name resolution.
Make sure the name mapping is correct by doing both
forward (name -> ip-addr) and backward (ip-addr -> name) lookup
of the hosts involved (yes the X-win32 host wants to lookup its own name !)
If you have  /etc/hosts or c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(Is this where win2000 keeps it ? I'm still on NT4 on the windows front)
make sure they also have correct mapping.
Hope this helps,

/Leif

lthuresson@rsasecurity.com


Israel Car wrote:

> I have a laptop running Woody.  When at home I have eth0 set to 192.168.0.3
> and I have another Win2000 laptop used for work with an IP address of
> 192.168.0.100.  Using X-win32 I can open gnome sessions using  XDMCP while
> running gdm.  I can also open sessions with another machine at home.  When
> at work, the same Win2000 laptop has an IP address of 10.1.2.131 and the
> Woody laptop has an IP address of 10.1.1.252.  When trying to connect to
> open an X session I get the 'XDM: too many retransmissions' message.  Any
> ideas why this doesn't seem to work when using the 10. addresses? Telnet,
> FTP are fine with the 10. addresses.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Israel
> icarr@compxnet.com