Re: can't get remote xdm login screen...help!
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
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