Hi! I am trying to turn my RH7.0 machine into a X terminal and a Xserver (for other X terminal in the house). The name of the machine being lorient. I use kdm (KDE 2.1 beta 2) and I modified inittab: ... # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x1:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon x2:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect lorient Xaccess: ... # match, for Direct and Broadcast Query messages, only entries without # right hand sides can match. # * #any host can get a login window # # To hardwire a specific terminal to a specific host, you can # leave the terminal sending indirect queries to this host, and # so this may not work in all environments. # ... * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser # # If you'd prefer to configure the set of hosts each terminal sees, # then just uncomment these lines (and comment the CHOOSER line above) ... Xservers: ... # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X and xdm-config ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm DisplayManager.requestPort: 1 Here are my problems: I get the window listing all the machines on house but I cannot connect to any of them. It looks like they refuse the connection. My machine does not appear on the list, I cannot access it via an Xterminal or something. Could you please tell me what i did wrong. Thanks in advance for any help Daniel
Sorry, I do not see a bug here. Please try the Red Hat 7.0 mailing list (guinness) for help setting up XFree86. Bugzilla's for bugs.
I considered that as a bug because on RedHat 6.2 it was working! So, I was just wondering if some parameters had been modified in XFree (especially in xdm and the XDMCP configuration) that would make the changes I mentionned uncomplete now. Daniel
Hi! Now I just want to have the XDMCP broadcasting available again. I will study the problem of the XDMCP query later on. What has changed in term of security between the RedHat 6 serie (at least 6.1 and 6.2) and the redhat 7.0 serie? Is the XDMCP broadcasting disabled? Then how is it disabled and how can it be put set again? I looked in many different mailing list without success. This is a very common question, many people have had troubles with that but no one came with a clean and satisfactory answer, to my opinion. The info I get are more quick and ugly hacks than nothing else! Many people play with gdm.conf but I DO NOT use gdm. I just want my machine back on the list. What and where is the parameter that has changed between the two versions. Why is this not documented? (a remark in the file for instance..) I suspect it has something to do with /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config (port? availability? Pam?...) I do not succeed to get the broadcasting back and I need it now! I thank you for your help. Daniel