On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Waller Martin MEJ wrote: > Here's the score - if I use xwin32 and try to query the linux machine > directly, after a very long pause (say a minute?) I get a message saying > something along the lines of 'Display <some obscure network name which isn't > the network name of the linux machine> could not be opened'. > > If i bring up a choser using the 'broadcast' option, I get our SG > machines on the list with 'willing to manage'. Selecting one of those > brings up the xdm login screen. Fine. But my linux machine, although on > the list, has the message 'available' (not 'willing to manage' as with the > SG machines). Selecting it just gives the same problem as mentioned above. > > I don't know the difference between 'willing to manage' and 'available' > but guess that if i could get my linux machine on the list as 'willing to > manage', then i could login via xdm.
Can you get xdm to work on your local console? Did you check /etc/X11/config /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config ? Sorry, can't help you any better than that. I used to have machine on a network with a lot of hp and sun servers and people using exceed in broadcast mode. After I installed linux on my machine, people thought that it broke the other machines - because my machine would show up immediately on their chooser, whereas the other machines would need half a minute or more to respond :-) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
