I forgot to say that my kdmrc file does show Xdmcp Enable=true


On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 17:43, Ken wrote:
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> To: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: LTSP Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Grey Screen with X problem again
> Date: 12 Jul 2002 20:40:18 -0400
> 
> Ken,
> 
> On the server, try this:
> 
>    netstat -anp | grep ":177 "
> 
> and see if kdm is really listening on port 177.  My guess is
> that it isn't.  If not, then find the kdmrc file.  I'm not sure
> where it is on a Mandarke system, but a locate should find it.
> In that file, make sure that Xdmcp is enabled.
> 
> if it is already enabled, then check your lts.conf file,
> and make sure that the 'SERVER' entry points to the correct IP
> address of the server.
> 
> that will probably take care of it for you.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> On 12 Jul 2002, Ken wrote:
> 
> > Well I had my system up and running fine for the last week. I was having
> > a problem with my Win4lin program not being able to use any TCPIP
> > services. I found out that I had to have ip_forwarding on. Since I
> > didn't know how to do that off the top of my head I figured I'd setup
> > the Internet connection sharing under Mandrake 8.2. Well that worked for
> > my Win4lin problem, however it proceeded to screw up my whole LTSP setup
> > and changed my IP address to 192.168.0.1, installed and ran iptables,
> > overwrote my current working dhcpd.conf file. My two workstations
> > stopped working of course. I figured it would just enable ip_forward and
> > leave everything else alone since the other services were running
> > already. 
> > 
> > Anyway, now to the grey screen dilemma. I had kept copies of all the
> > config files for my LTSP setup, so I changed my IP back, shutdown
> > iptables and dhcpd, copied all the good config files back, restarted
> > dhcpd and booted the workstations. That's where I now get the grey
> > screen with the X cursor and nothing past that. Not only that but when
> > it gets to that point it kicks my server machine out of KDE and back to
> > the command prompt. This happens no matter if I have the client machines
> > boot to runlevel=5 or if I have them go runlevel=3 and run sh
> > /tmp/start_ws. I remember people saying that most likely kdm wasn't
> > running, but it is. When going into KDE on the server before any clients
> > try to boot, I go into KDE System Guard and it lists kdm as running
> > already. What else can be the problem?  I've even tried reinstalling
> > LTSP and I get the same results. I really don't want to have to
> > reinstall the whole machine.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ken Anderson
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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