On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 11:11:13 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further >> information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease >> expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft >> machine to see if they are making any assumptions about IP addresses. >> You could also try manually starting the client on eldar, pointing it >> at the (running) X server on your Microsoft box. Something like: >> >> xterm -display microsoft:0 > > this did the trick, after i started it, it gave the report that it > couldn't find the computername. I checked the DNS entry's and they where > all correct. After that i checked the /etc/hosts and saw that there was > an error there. (the computername was listed multiple times with diverent > IP's). After correcting this, xdm gave my Xserver a beautifull login > prompt. :-)
Glad to hear that we've solved the problem. But looking back, consider the approach. Reinstalling seldom helps. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
