[AG-TECH] X-Win32 troubles

[Frank Sweetser]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:28:56PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> Ok, here's a really weird one for you.  We have attempted to run X-Win32
> on our Windows display box in order to start the node on the Linux box
> and have it display the rat window, etc. on the display machine so we
> don't need to have a head on the Linux box.  This works, however,
> somehow, the upper left-hand corner of the Windows machine's desktop is
> being sent out as a video stream, overriding the camera video that is
> coming into the Linux box's video capture card.  This desktop video
> image is definately being multicast out, since we can see it on totally
> different systems running Open Mash and the Access Grid software, and a
> capture of the network traffic verifies that it is coming from the Linux
> encoder box.

Another data point - we later tried the same thing, except displaying on
a RedHat 8 box running X instead of Win2k running X-Win32, with the same
results: a the video stream multicast out was a corner of the RedHat box's
desktop, not what the camera was seeing.

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Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer