SuSE gurus, I'm trying to get XDMCP to work under SuSE 8.0 I have not intentionally setup any firewall or ipfilter type of stuff. I have found and commented out the security line in xdm-config (i.e. the DisplayManager.requestPort line), but it is still not working. I used ethereal to get a TCP/IP trace and it is showing the XDMCP UDP request packet coming in, but it shows the SuSE box sending out a "destination unreachable" packet in response. This does not makes sense because I can ssh in, and I have even added my PC into the /etc/hosts file. Is there something else I should check? Is there some kind of default firewall logic that is still blocking this? Thanks Greg
Yes, that works great. I haven't had a chance to look at SuSE 8.0 yet, but if it's like previous releases, XDMCP or Chooser enquiries are _not_ accepted by default. Check for /var/X11R6/lib/xdm/xdm-config (assuming 8.0 is the same) and comment out the line "DisplayManager.requestPort: 0" thusly:
!DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
Couldn't run too many large Win apps at the same time, or things seemed to run a bit short on memory.
Does that work for you against a SuSE box? It is actually the first thing I tried, but it did not work.
Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com