On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:20:42AM -0400, Aleksandra Bytnerowicz wrote > Igor Mozetic, the Debian List and Brandon Harris: > > I came across a post for XDMCP and broadcast posting to the debian lists > + in November 1998. SPecifically, the message which was written was: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9811/msg00336.html > > I have a subnet of 6 Linux boxes and tried to achieve what you mentioned > +, that a XDMCP chooser pops up in each monitor querying for ITSELF and > +BROADCASTING to other machines. By opening up the Xaccess file: > > *.domain.com > *.domain.com CHOOSER BROADCAST > > and commenting the Xservers line: > > #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > makes the local machine act like an X terminal > > and running X -indirect some_host.domain.com I can see the other machine > +s via broadcast, but of course cannot see the XDM for my own machine. > > In effect, I am trying to get each machine to show a CHOOSER with ITSELF > + and all the other hosts on the subnet which are collected via BROADCAS > +T, and let me select my choice of machine to login to. > > Any ideas? Any suggestions would be appreciated! >
I run a one-line script called Xchooser out of inittab: /usr/bin/X11/X -indirect `/bin/hostname --fqdn` &> /var/log/XChooser.errors My Xaccess file contains: *.localnet localhost *.localnet CHOOSER BROADCAST localhost CHOOSER BROADCAST (*.localnet is my local ethernet) and it works for me. I suspect that you either want to use the FQDN for your host as the indirect host rather than localhost, or add entries for localhost to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. I do it this way, as if I do X -indirect localhost I get two entries for the localhost (FQDN and localhost). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
