Many thanks to William Flett and Neil Dyce for their replies. It seems my
problem was twofold. I had neglected to check "DECWindows" compatibility
in the config options, and my .xsession file was not compatible with
Digital's xdm. Apparently, the xsession requires the line "mwm || xlogo"
at the end of the xsession file, otherwise it just executes the file and
exits.
It appears to be working now.
Thanks,
Jon
At 05:28 PM 8/14/98 +0100, William Flett wrote:
>
> We have been using Exceed5 from WIN95 clients to DU for sometime and have
> had various problems. We have a basic setup instruction file which says:
>
>******* exceed setup **********
>
>Exceed Installation is is /home/staff/PCsoft/exceed.
>
>Click on 'setup'
>
>Once installed run 'Xconfig' (which can be found in 'exceed.95):
>
>In Security - set 'Enabled (no host access)'
>
>In Communication set Mode to 'XDMCP-query' , then click on
>'configure', set the connect host (to Platon for example), and make
>the 'key' field blank.
>
>Also, change the last line of your .xsession to
>
> 'mwm || xlogo'
>
>********* end of setup *****************
>
> The strange bit is the window mgr and xlogo bit. If mwm appears (on the
> last line of the .xsession) by itself the Xsession simply finishes
> immeadiately. So this is a bodge to get around that problem.
>
> Sorry it appears to be giving you a earlier problem (no login screen).
>
> Try the Exceed logging facilities to catch an error(s).
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Will Flett
At 04:50 PM 8/14/98 +0100, Neil Dyce wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>This is my checklist for DecWindows, which I think I distilled from the
>OSF managers archive. Not sure if the access control list option is
>entirely necessary.
>
>Communications: leave the Key field blank
>
>Security: Check "Allow clients to modify Host Access Control List"
>
>Protocol: Check "DECWindows compatibility"
>
>Regards,
>Neil Dyce.
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Below is my original post:
>I looked in the archive and found numerous questions about XDMCP, but none
>of the solutions worked for me. We have Windows NT PC's running eXceed 5.
>They are in XDMCP broadcast mode, and at first, connections on all hosts
>were refused, and eXceed reset the server. I blanked out the "Key" and
>"Display Class" fields in eXceed's Xconfig, and then I could connect to
>some of the machines, namely Linux machines, and Alphas running CDE/DU4.0.
>However, when I try to connect to our older Alphas, running 3.2C thru 3.2G,
>I get the login screen, and then the xserver resets. I've checked the xdm
>config files, and they are the same on the 3.2 machines as on the 4.0
>machines.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this isn't working?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 14 1998 - 19:02:15 NZST