On Saturday, 6 November 2004 23.34, Richard Bos wrote:
I'm trying to get xdmcp access from an suse-9.0 to a suse-9.2 system. I do not succeed and wonder why...
On the 9.2 (destination) box the following settings are made: in /etc/sysconf/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="yes" DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="yes"
That last one isn't needed on the xdm machine. In fact, you don't even have to have an X server installed Did you run SuSEconfig after changing those? Did it take effect? Make sure there isn't an "kdmrc.SuSEconfig" in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/
In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br vt7 :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :1 vt8 :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :2 vt9 :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :3 vt10 :4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :4 vt11 :5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br :5 vt12
These are all local servers. For serving remote servers (damn I hate the X terminology :), you need to look at the [Xdmcp] section in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. It needs to have "Enable=true" (I'm guessing you're using kdm here, since it's the SuSE default)
With those settings I expect xdcmp to work, but no.... Oh the command I use on the from box is: X -query 192.168... :1
vt08 shows the grey X background and I can move the mouse, but that's about it. After some time the X times out.... Anything I can try?
Make sure there isn't a firewall running on the 9.2 machine blocking port 177 (udp, I *think*), and that there isn't a firewall on the local machine blocking port 6001 Also, if the 9.0 machine has multiple IP addresses, make sure X is using one that xdm can contact