SUMMARY: xdmcp fails

From: George A. Dowding <dowdingg_at_saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:50:19 -0800 (AKDT)

Greetings,

Basic problem: I am running NT with X-win32 one of several Xservers
for Windows. The xdmcp from one of the servers failed to open up with
the logon screen, while a similarly configured system had no problem.
I thought the problem might be tcp wrapers since that was the most
significant difference between the two machines. Both servers are 4.0 E


"Curt Cranfield" <curt_at_vphos.net> suggested I check the hosts file on
the pc, which was one of the first things I checked.

Als thanks to "Thomas M. Payerle" <payerle_at_physics.umd.edu> who
tested with NT running X-win32 with a True64 machine that had tcp
wrapper, and found that he had no problem.

The solution: I am not sure what fixed, but here is what I did.

1. Stopped xdm from working

        #/sbin/init.d/xlogin stop

2. Started xdm in debug mode which meant adding the line

        DisplayManager.debugLevel: 1

        to the /var/lib/xdm/xdm-config file

3. xdm now worked so I commented out the debug line and restarted
xlogin.


Like I said I don't know what happened. I'd be interested to hear if
anyone has an explanation.y


-- 
Thanks,
George
dowdingg_at_saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu 
http://saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg
Received on Thu Sep 16 1999 - 00:52:52 NZST

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