Not getting login using xdmcp
Takuma Murakami
murakami@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed Dec 31 15:09:00 GMT 2003
Dear Andrew,
It seems you have configured it careful enough. It looks
so hard to figure out problems.
I found an article which might be similar to your problem.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2003-Jul/0003.html
Does it help?
Takuma Murakami (murakami@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
> I have a SuSE 8.2 installation. I am attempting to use Cygwin/XFree86 to
> start an X session using XDMCP. XDMCP is not on by default so I have
> performed the following changes:
>
> * Enabled XDMCP in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc by setting
> "Enable=true" for the [Xdmcp] section.
> * Modified /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config to comment out
> DisplayManager.requestPort by putting a "!" in the first character.
> * Uncommented the "*" line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and
> /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess. Note there are two different
> lines in each file. The difference seems to be one is of the form
> of "* CHOOSER BROADCAST" and just the plain "*". I've tried all
> combinations to no avail.
> * I have only one NIC.
> * I've tried xwin -query sonslinux -from adefaria, same problem.
> * Sonslinux sits right next to me and I can login using KDE just
> fine on the console - I just can't get a remote X session from my
> XP box to put up a chooser.
> * XWin.log always seems to indicate "XDM: too many retransmissions"
> as the problem (Sample XWin.log attached). Note that XDM: too many
> retransmissions only shows up after waiting for a while.
> * Nothing listed in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/kdm.log on sonslinux.
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