Hi, I've got my server running SuSE 8.0 but now I can't connect to an X session remotely. What does the server need to know in order to deliver X to my remote workstations that it knew in 7.3 but doesn't in 8.0? -- Best wishes, Derek
On Tue 11 June 2002 11:29, Derek wrote:
Hi,
I've got my server running SuSE 8.0 but now I can't connect to an X session remotely. What does the server need to know in order to deliver X to my remote workstations that it knew in 7.3 but doesn't in 8.0?
I've got rather further on in the diagnosis now - it seems to be something to do with kdm since xdm lets me in perfectly. I've gone through the sysconfig file for kdm but can't see anything obvious. The docs/packages/kde3 isn't much help unless I'm looking in the wrong place and "man kdm" doesn't find anything (not really surprised). -- Best wishes, Derek
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Derek wrote:
I've got my server running SuSE 8.0 but now I can't connect to an X session remotely. What does the server need to know in order to deliver X to my remote workstations that it knew in 7.3 but doesn't in 8.0? I've got rather further on in the diagnosis now - it seems to be something to do with kdm since xdm lets me in perfectly. I've gone through the sysconfig file for kdm but can't see anything obvious. The docs/packages/kde3 isn't much help unless I'm looking in the wrong place and "man kdm" doesn't find anything (not really surprised).
Just a thought: in your kdmrc file (probably but not definitely in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc), in the [Xdmcp] section, what does the "Enable=" line say? Michael
Hi,
I've got my server running SuSE 8.0 but now I can't connect to an X session remotely. What does the server need to know in order to deliver X to my remote workstations that it knew in 7.3 but doesn't in 8.0?
You need to start X with either the -query or -broadcast option and you need xdm/kdm/gdm/etc configured to accept XDCMP requests. The latter may well be turned off by default, but the way you turn it on depends on the display manager. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
On Wed 12 June 2002 10:42, Mark Evans wrote:
Hi,
I've got my server running SuSE 8.0 but now I can't connect to an X session remotely. What does the server need to know in order to deliver X to my remote workstations that it knew in 7.3 but doesn't in 8.0?
You need to start X with either the -query or -broadcast option and you need xdm/kdm/gdm/etc configured to accept XDCMP requests. The latter may well be turned off by default, but the way you turn it on depends on the display manager.
The solution:- OK - I start with X :1 -query server and, if server is running xdm, it offers me the remote login. If I run kdm it doesn't. I have checked the /etc/X11/ folder for possible configs for kdm but only find xdm. /etc/sysconfig offers me displaymanager but only allows me to define kdm variables. In fact, it is in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm that I find kdmrc and kdmrc.SuSEconfig lurking. kdmrc is the config that is used when kdm starts and although the .SuSEconfig had the correct settings, somehow it hadn't been copied over into kdmrc. Thus there was the [Xdmcp] section, "Enable=false" which should have been true. That was it - thanks to those who gave me the clue where to go - I was on the right lines but looking in completely the wrong place! -- Best wishes, Derek
You need to start X with either the -query or -broadcast option and you need xdm/kdm/gdm/etc configured to accept XDCMP requests.
Seeing as you are talking about XDMCP, I have recently released v1.0 of the XDM and X Terminal Mini Howto document. As there is quite a lot of expertise about X/XDM on this list, I would welcome any feedback/comments/etc about it, if any of you have a chance to scan over it. (see the LDP for details http://www.tldp.org/) Thanks, Kevin Taylor, Northants Linux Users Group
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