cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

[amr roushi]

I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the 
xdm login via
  xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the 
XF86 log .
thanks for ur help

Re: cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:22:48PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the 
> xdm login via
>  xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
> all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
> when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the 
> XF86 log .

Is xdm actually running on the Redhat system?  On most Linux systems
it isn't started by default I don't think, I usually add it to the
rc.local file.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

Re: cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

[amr roushi]

Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:22:48PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> 
>>I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the 
>>xdm login via
>> xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
>>all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
>>when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the 
>>XF86 log .
> 
> 
> Is xdm actually running on the Redhat system?  On most Linux systems
> it isn't started by default I don't think, I usually add it to the
> rc.local file.
> 
Chris thank u for the hint can u give me the line to add in rc.local 
and where it is
thks agin for ur help
amr

Re: cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, amr roushi wrote:

> Chris Green wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:22:48PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> >
> >>I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the
> >>xdm login via
> >> xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
> >>all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
> >>when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the
> >>XF86 log .
> >
> > Is xdm actually running on the Redhat system?  On most Linux systems
> > it isn't started by default I don't think, I usually add it to the
> > rc.local file.
> >
> Chris thank u for the hint can u give me the line to add in rc.local
> and where it is
> thks agin for ur help
> amr

Amr,

You might want to take a look at
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#xdmcp> and
<http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/>...  To check whether xdm is
running, you can use "ps -ef | grep '[gkx]dm'".  If it is running, check
/var/log/messages to see if there are any complaints.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton

Re: cannot get XDM on remote RH 8

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:02:01PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:22:48PM +0100, amr roushi wrote:
> >
> >>I am running on W2K with XF86 and running fine with AIX & SUSE I get the 
> >>xdm login via
> >>xwin :0 -query hostname -from hostnameHere .
> >>all addresses are resolveable and XDM enabled .
> >>when doing this to the redhat Nothing happens and also nothing in the 
> >>XF86 log .
> >
> >
> >Is xdm actually running on the Redhat system?  On most Linux systems
> >it isn't started by default I don't think, I usually add it to the
> >rc.local file.
> >
> Chris thank u for the hint can u give me the line to add in rc.local 
> and where it is
> thks agin for ur help
> 
Well my /etc/rc.d/rc.local has:-

    /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm

This is on Slackware 9.1 but there's no guarantee that is going to be
right for other Linux versions, xdm may be in a different place and/or
you may have a different layout of start-up scripts.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)