My original question was:
>Hi,
>We have been trying to setup PC exceed X window software to access a
DEC2000 4/233 alpha server >however when trying to start the dxsession
process we get a dialog box error message:
>
>Cannot start session manager from remote client -- access denied.
>
>We have tried xhost, ensured that hosts is in host file, tried entries in
the
>Xserver file etc. with no results.
>
>Does anyone know what it causing the X server from denying access to the
>remote client when starting the dxsession?
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>Phil Pidgeon
>ppidgeon_at_omc.otis.utc.com
To summarize:
1. Initially I was trying to setup eXceed using the xconfig PASSIVE
communication mode then trying to launch a dxsession by running the command
line. The answer therefore to my original question was given by Miguel Mena
from DEC and it worked:
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Hello,
put this line in your $HOME/.Xdefaults:
*security: False
... or startup dxsession like this:
# dxsession -d <display>:0 -xrm "*security: False" &
Best regards,
Miguel
+---------------------------+tm Miguel Mena
| | | | | | | | Digital UNIX Software Support
| d | i | g | i | t | a | l | DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
| | | | | | | | Hofwisenstrasse 50
+---------------------------+ CH-8153 Ruemlang (Switzerland)
email: migi_at_zuo.dec.com phone: +41-1-801-2111 fax: +41-1-801-2172
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2. However as more email came in, it became obvious that there were more
elegant ways to setup eXceed to display the full DEC desktop and the DEC
login screen.
The following people pointed me in the right direction and suggested using:
Xconfig's Communication XDMCP query mode
noting an issue with xdmkey:
Xconfig Communication Configure key <blank> rather than xdmkey
and the possible need for clients to change the access control list:
Security x - Allow clients to modify access control list
Bob.Parkinson_at_nottingham.ac.uk
jcraig_at_gfs.com
"Geert.VAN DEN EEDE"_at_SCIC.cec.be
censjg_at_torduff.hw.ac.uk
Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com
migi_at_zuo.dec.com
3. After getting this far I then got the DEC logo up but instead of the
login widget I got
a widget displaying:
"Cannot obtain database information on this terminal "
Followed by another widget displaying:
"!"
which endlessly loops back to the previous widget, only way out to close the
exceed window
and restart.
We are using C2 enhanced security on DEC Unix 3.2c which then adds further
complexity to getting a X terminal running:
Again by using the trusty Internet and WWW via Alta Vista found the OSF
Manager's
archive:
SUMMARY: Xdm and enhanced security
mail message by Ted Asocks 30 Nov 95
which had appended a DEC document on this subject which solved this problem
by:
a. Editing /etc/auth/system/ttys file and adding a line for each xterminal
with
name <ipname> without <>'s:
<ipname>\:0|<ipname>\;0.0:t_devname=<ipname>\:0:t_xdisplay:t_login_timeout#0
:\:chkent
b. Edit /etc/auth/system/devassign file adding a line for each xterminal
with
name <ipname> without <>'s:
<ipname>\:0:v_des=<ipname>:0:v_vtype=xdisplay:chkent:
c. Edit /etc/securettys adding a line for each xterminal requiring root
access:
<ipname>:0
Refer to the specific archived document for full details.
4. Then 'hay presto' it works.
Hope this helps others to get eXceed working too and if anything I've
included in this summary needs clarification please don't hesitate to
contact me by email.
Thanks also for replies from:
jaida_at_gmd.com.pe
w.pfuntner_at_ieee.org
pirie_at_u.washington.edu - especially for his login script.
petersd_at_mail.novacor.com
klt_at_masadm1.mas.eurocontrol.be
- thank you for showing me that there is
more than one way to
skin a cat.
kgminor_at_sandia.gov - thanks for the link to:
http://www.hummingbird.com:80/faq/FAQ1095.HTML
and the hummingbird exceed mailing list:
send subscribe <email_at_address>
to: exceedusers-request_at_hummingbird.com
sfrankl_at_.nswc.navy.mil
rrodgers_at_ci.ft-wayne.in.us - sorry I didn't get the attached file, doesn't
seem to come across
with through MS Mail (I don't have a direct internet
connection yet).
Regards,
Phil Pidgeon
OTIS Engineering Center - Penang Malaysia
ppidgeon_at_omc.otis.utc.com
Received on Wed Apr 24 1996 - 20:13:58 NZST