Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:39:59 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm and xdmcp Message-ID: <20100121233959.GA56312@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr> References: <20100121185441.GB4125@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr>
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 21/01/2010 8:54 ??.??., rhino64@postmail.ch wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on freebsd 8 ? > > > > Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) > > > I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config, > > > > This is needed. > > > modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter "udpPort 177". > > > > The command "netstat -a" never indicates that a process is listening on that port. > > > > The notes in Xaccess seem to indicate that when a LISTEN line is not > present, it works like LISTEN * > I found this to be false. Please insert a LISTEN line with your IP > address, i.e. > > LISTEN 10.14.28.10 > > With wdm, the listening is possible but I cannot start the X server even if the server alone > > is perfectly working and if it is correctly started by xdm. > > > > I don't want to use kdm or gdm since they are too heavy (almost all kde and gnome should be > > installed with them). > > > > > > Same here, I use XDM for login - I don't need anything fancy. About 15 > terminals running XFCE through a core2quad machine. I'm running xdm on ia64 and connecting from sparc64, both 9.0-current, works fine. I could probably share my xdm config files, if this is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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