OK, I've done this before - and each time I think 'Oh its easy , I'll remember that....' only to forget again :-( I've reinstalled SUSE (7.3 this time) and found I could not even connect remotely from a PC telnet session. This seemed to be due to only TCP/IPv6 connections allowed - so I changed it to tcp/ip and I can now connect. However - I cannot get XDM to work from a remote Xserver. I have commented out the last line of \etc\X11\xdm - no difference. but I have a feeling I should be looking for kdm .. is there such a file - and where? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alan Davies wrote:
OK, I've done this before - and each time I think 'Oh its easy , I'll remember that....' only to forget again :-( I've reinstalled SUSE (7.3 this time) and found I could not even connect remotely from a PC telnet session. This seemed to be due to only TCP/IPv6 connections allowed - so I changed it to tcp/ip and I can now connect. However - I cannot get XDM to work from a remote Xserver. I have commented out the last line of \etc\X11\xdm - no difference. but I have a feeling I should be looking for kdm .. is there such a file - and where?
# This ruleset sets up a server to run as an application server providing # remote X logins. [kdmrc] File=/usr/share/config/kdmrc Data=<<EOF [ Xdmcp ] Enable = true # enables remote login screens EOF Michael
However - I cannot get XDM to work from a remote Xserver. I have commented out the last line of \etc\X11\xdm - no difference.
You need to check that xdm is actually running on the machine (ie is started at boot time) ...
but I have a feeling I should be looking for kdm .. is there such a file - and where?
kdm is a 'drop-in' replacement for xdm. Either should do the job. If you are using xdm, see if the 'XDM and X Terminal mini-howto' helps at all ... should list what all the different config files mean/do. I don't know much about kdm or gdm (the Gnome equivalent). Kevin.
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