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Op vrijdag 7 maart 2003 22:06, schreef John Lamb:
I've also set up eXceed with XDMCP so that I can run SuSE apps directly on my desktop.
Interesting... are you using kde's login manager (kdm)? Do you have a option under the menu buttopn that says something like remote. I use xdmcp as well, but the "remote" option is not there. Which makes it hard to run an xdmcp from a linux box to another X host.... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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Op vrijdag 7 maart 2003 22:06, schreef John Lamb: Interesting... are you using kde's login manager (kdm)? Do you have a option under the menu buttopn that says something like remote. I use xdmcp as well, but the "remote" option is not there. Which makes it hard to run an xdmcp from a linux box to another X host....
Most of it is in the XDMCP howto on http://www.tldp.org/ I think the only change you really *need* is to make sure /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc has under [Xdmcp] Enable=true instead of Enable=false Forby that, you'll probably want to run xfs (font server) so that eXceed can pick up your fonts. Start xfs in the runlevel editor and put FontPath "unix/:7100" in /etc/X11/XF86config above the other FontPath lines. Also, comment out other fontpaths that xfs can export (I haven't yet worked out which because the SuSE box doesn't have a monitor attached to see them with). I also use inet to restrict services to ssh, sftp and samba, and the SuSE packet filter (firewall) to deny unwanted connections. This makes it harder to connect to the X server. An alterative might be to use a second nic and crossover cable on the SuSE box so that the network carrying X is physically isolated. -- JDL
Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 08:27, schreef John Lamb:
Op vrijdag 7 maart 2003 22:06, schreef John Lamb: Interesting... are you using kde's login manager (kdm)? Do you have a option under the menu buttopn that says something like remote. I use xdmcp as well, but the "remote" option is not there. Which makes it hard to run an xdmcp from a linux box to another X host....
Hi John, thanks for your reply. However, my question above is about the client functionality of the xdmcp protocol. Did you enable the greeter/chooser functionality in kdmrc? [X-:0-Greeter] EnableChooser=true <==== LogSource=/dev/xconsole ShowLog=true This should give you the "remote login" option in the menu button. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 08:27, schreef John Lamb:
Interesting... are you using kde's login manager (kdm)? Do you have a option under the menu buttopn that says something like remote
No. I haven't tried this. I assume this allows you to listen for machines on the network using XDMCP and choose one to connect with. I don't need this just now, though it would be interesting to try. Did you look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess ? -- JDL
Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 17:21, schreef John Lamb:
Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 08:27, schreef John Lamb:
Interesting... are you using kde's login manager (kdm)? Do you have a option under the menu buttopn that says something like remote
No. I haven't tried this. I assume this allows you to listen for machines on the network using XDMCP and choose one to connect with. I don't need this just now, though it would be interesting to try.
Did you look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess ?
According kdm's maintainer this file is of not relevance as all related files are in: /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess However, having no option "remote login" in the button "menu" is a little bit different than having the "remote login" option, but not able to view any hosts. But it surely is an interesting option (it works nice on sun machines btw) -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Richard Bos wrote:
Did you look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess ?
According kdm's maintainer this file is of not relevance as all related files are in: /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
At least on my home machine KDM is reading /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc rather than /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and these are not symlinked. Forby, /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc defines [Xdmcp] Enable=false Willing=/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling Xaccess=/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess Of course, there's no guarantee that you have the same setup. -- JDL
Op zaterdag 8 maart 2003 21:24, schreef John Lamb:
Richard Bos wrote:
Did you look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess ?
According kdm's maintainer this file is of not relevance as all related files are in: /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
At least on my home machine KDM is reading /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc rather than /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and these are not symlinked. Forby, /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc defines
Mine are symlinked :) Have a look at VT10 (<ctl><alt><f10>) just after starting the X server. I have there log message saying that some kdmrc keys are not recognized. These keys are: [X-:0-Greeter] EnableChooser=true LogSource=/dev/xconsole ShowLog=true loginMode=2 I wunder why they are not recognized. A not much saying snippet of the code (file kdebase/kdm/kfrontend/kdm_config.c): for (i = 0; i < cursec->sect->numents; i++) if ((int)strlen (cursec->sect->ents[i].name) == nlen && !memcmp (cursec->sect->ents[i].name, nstr, nlen)) goto keyok; LogError ("Unrecognized key '%.*s' at %s:%d\n", nlen, nstr, kdmrc, line); goto keyfnd; http://lxr.kde.org/source/kdebase/kdm/kfrontend/kdm_config.c#L760 It would be nice to know what causes this.... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Richard Bos wrote:
Have a look at VT10 (<ctl><alt><f10>) just after starting the X server. I have there log message saying that some kdmrc keys are not recognized. These keys are:
[X-:0-Greeter] EnableChooser=true LogSource=/dev/xconsole ShowLog=true loginMode=2
I wunder why they are not recognized.
I also get EnableChooser key not recognised, despite the comments in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, which is probably unchanged from the KDE 3.1 install: # Greeter config for 1st local display [X-:0-Greeter] # See above #PreselectUser=Default # See above #DefaultUser=johndoe # Enable KDM's built-in xconsole. Note, that this can be enabled for only # one display at a time. Default is false ShowLog=true EnableChooser=true # The data source for KDM's built-in xconsole. The default "" means that # a console log redirection should be requested from /dev/console. LogSource=/dev/xconsole I guess this might make it more difficult to use kdm as an XDMCP client, though currently I'm using eXceed as client and kdm as server. If it makes any difference I have [Xdmcp] Enable=false Willing=/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling Xaccess=/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess is being read. Without the Xaccess key, the default file should be /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess. -- JDL
Op zondag 9 maart 2003 17:11, schreef John Lamb:
I also get EnableChooser key not recognised, despite the comments in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, which is probably unchanged from the KDE 3.1 install:
It will probably become activated in a next kde release. HEAD contains the code, but it did appearently not make it into kde-3.1 -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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