I solved my problem by using the time-honored Unix way: RTFM-ing.
Unfortunately I had to purchase the correct FM -- "X Window System
Administrator's Guide" [O'Reilly]. There were a couple of problems.
1. The default xdm configuration file (for CDE),
/usr/dt/config/Xconfig.con, has per-user authorization turned on. The
eXceed configuration to use this set a display class of "HCLpcXserver"
and a key "xdmkey". By clearing those two fields in the XDMCP
configuration of eXceed, the login screen appeared.
2. eXceed needs to use DU 4.0b's font server to get at the fonts
needed by CDE. By default the font server is not started.
3. Even when the font server is running, there were complaints about
missing fonts. It turns out that DU's default font server
configuration file, /usr/var/X11/fs/config, does not include the CDE
fonts in the exported catalog! To fix, add /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cde,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cde/75dpi, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cde/100dpi to the
catalogue.
Now everything is working quite well.
=======================================
Original Message:
> Hi,
> We have a new Alphasever 1000 running DU 4.0b. We also have some
> PC's running Hummingbird eXceed X-server software. There are two
> ways to configure eXceed: 1. passive/multi mode, which uses the MS
> Windows window manager to manage the screen, with each Xwindow app
> in its own Windows window; or 2. single/XDMCP query mode, which does
> an XDMCP query to a specified host, and then the X session is in one
> large Windows window. This allows you run native window managers
> like HP Vue, or CDE. Our prior experience with XDMCP query mode was
> on HP servers, where the VUE login screen would come up on the PC,
> the user would then login, and voila, HP VUE desktop. Under DU 4.0,
> eXceed gets and error: xdm session declined. We had configured the
> alpha to use CDE, and dtlogin is running. Checking the Xaccess file,
> shows it should allow access from any host (the default).
>
> All suggestions greatly appreciated,
> --
> Peter Gross
> Probita, Inc.
> pag_at_probita.com
> +1.303.546.6307 x3329
>
>
--
Peter Gross
Probita, Inc.
pag_at_probita.com
+1.303.546.6307 x3329
Received on Mon Feb 17 1997 - 19:15:17 NZDT