When trying to connect with XDMCP direct from my pc to hpux11.11 I get error message : "Your XDMCP connection timed out - make sure that the hosts on you network are running XDM programs. (RX2102)"
I now everything is right on the unix server, because I am able to connect from a different pc, with the same software, on the same subnet, with the same connection type etc to the unix server.
I guess it's most likely going to be a network hostname / resolution issue : try adding the PC's ip address and hostname into the hpux servers /etc/hosts ?
Do both systems server and pc yield the same info wrt nslookup ip address and hostnames for each other ....
do you use XDMCP with "broadcast"? Then maybe your PC's netmask is wrong. And are you certain you don't have any kind of a firewall between Reflection/X and your HPUX box? Not even a "personal" one? XDMCP is using UDP and firewall don't like that (X-Windows is using TCP, though).
I see the problem has been solved, but I'm adding this in case someone else has a similar problem to one I had in the past.
We experienced a very similar issue, but the IP address and a hostname was already in /etc/hosts. It turns out that something didn't like the fact that the hostname either started with a digit, or was a number (e.g. 3148). All we had to do was to make it start with a letter (x3148) and it was happy.
Hi Seth, that's a known M$ thing: if the supposed-to-be hostname starts with a digit, but does not contain dots (i.e. is an IP address), then M$ assumes it would be a 32-bit integer representation of the IP-address. As an example: the IP-address 1.2.3.4 can be written as "16909060" - try to "ping" it on a Windows-box...
