Leendert Meyer wrote:

I hope you have an ssh server running on that file server. If so, you can login on that box in text-mode with:

ssh root@host_name

Aha! open sesame...

If you can't use a Linux box, use putty instead. That's an ssh client that runs on windows (google for putty+windows).

Aha again.. I was about to ask :)

Oh, and have a look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/warn and /var/log/Xorg.*.log to see what went wrong. ;)

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