REPOST: XDMCP Problems

2006-09-06 Thread Robert A. Campbell
I'm hoping somebody can give me a hand with this, I'm using the latest cygwin xfree, and have read the FAQ and tried everything in it with no success. On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:25 -0600, Robert Campbell wrote: > Hi all my first question to this forum so be gentle. > > I have two problems that

XDMCP Problems

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi all my first question to this forum so be gentle. I have two problems that seem to be related. I have a home LAN setup with two FC4 boxes. On the first FC4 box, I have setup XDMCP, and can connect to the XDMCP via Xnest on the second box. This works: Xnest :1 -query This te

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-06 Thread Rasjid Wilcox
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:31, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > Andrew DeFaria wrote: ... > >> Well you see that's sorta the problem. In my distro (SuSE 8.2) it's > >> at /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc but the problem is that it already > >> says true! In mine is says: I'm r

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, I think at this point you need to start looking at some SuSE docs to figoure out how to enable XDMCP on that distribution. This is not a problem with Cygwin/X... it is clearly a problem with the configuration of your SuSE box. I think that other mailing lists/websites/newsgroups woul

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I never thought of forcing people to try to make a connection on the actual box itself. I ran the same command on my linux box and confirmed that it does work. I then edited (for my display manager and distribution, this will be different for you)

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I never thought of forcing people to try to make a connection on the actual box itself. I ran the same command on my linux box and confirmed that it does work. I then edited (for my display manager and distribution, this will be different for you) /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, chan

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Andrew, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sorry for the delay. We were having problems with our router and general networking issues - not an nice environment to test things like remote X... Well I tried that too but it didn't work. The symptoms are exactly the same. For kicks I

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sorry for the delay. We were having problems with our router and general networking issues - not an nice environment to test things like remote X... Well I tried that too but it didn't work. The symptoms are exactly the same. For kicks I tried the following: Whil

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-30 release may fix some problems with not getting a login screen when using XDMCP. See the change log for more information: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/server/changelog.html Please try this new server and report on whether it allows you to g

XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2003-12-31 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-30 release may fix some problems with not getting a login screen when using XDMCP. See the change log for more information: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/server/changelog.html Please try this new server and report on whether it allows you to get a login screen or not

XDMCP Problems --- Related fix? [Fwd: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)]

2003-12-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Just saw this come through on the CVS commit for xfree86.org. I wonder if it is related to the problems we are seeing with XDMCP connections? Harold Original Message Subject: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:10:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matthieu Herrb <[EMAI

Re: Odd XDMCP problems (resolved)

2003-09-19 Thread Mike Campbell
Well I figured out what the problem was with my XDMCP connection. I had edited the /etc/profile file to set the DISPLAY environment variable dynamically using the host I was connecting from. The entry in the /etc/profile was this: export DISPLAY="${REMOTEHOST}:0.0" It seems that when an XDMCP

Re: Odd XDMCP problems

2003-09-18 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mike, Mike Campbell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is an odd one for you to try to help me figure out. I have configured my RedHat Linux 9.0 system to allow XDCMP connections. When I reboot the server the console comes up with the default kdm login box. ~From my win2k

Odd XDMCP problems

2003-09-18 Thread Mike Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is an odd one for you to try to help me figure out. I have configured my RedHat Linux 9.0 system to allow XDCMP connections. When I reboot the server the console comes up with the default kdm login box. ~From my win2k machine I have installed all