From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 02:10:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09B116A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:10:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew.chace@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5E243D45 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:10:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew.chace@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n1so744550nzf for ; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:10:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=DrQ+mmXk82SdAu5+++hByPkSkOQTC5K9LH4DWQLsNdvcj9GSIGDFYotqTsXy9y8obFE9ZzobQtAQFa0Fa3QpI3apDa37r85+FNpKJMCpPN7HVlBAuatMc037Gx+T6/BxkJyoUdpnHcnMVhrbAqd9Tf5Gqtv00E0EeaDRiXsWpz8= Received: by 10.36.50.1 with SMTP id x1mr6053848nzx; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from netvista.network ( [71.214.204.80]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm296148nza.2006.03.05.18.10.05; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:10:06 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1141604952.30022.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1141595211.738.12.camel@netvista.network> <1141604952.30022.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:08:54 -0600 Message-Id: <1141610934.26138.5.camel@netvista.network> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with GDM and XDMCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:10:07 -0000 On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 19:29 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 15:46 -0600, Andrew wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've a workstation that I'd like to use as a terminal server for several > > laptops. All are running FreeBSD 6, GNOME 2.12, and GDM. XDMCP is > > enabled on the workstation, but I'm not able to login (remotely) with > > any of the latops. If I run XDMCP chooser from GDM, it times out saying > > that it cannot find any available hosts on the local network. sockstat > > shows that gdm is in fact listening on the workstation; however the > > strange bit is that sockstat shows a udp6 connection. I have ipv6 > > disabled in rc.conf on both workstation and laptops. All traffic between > > the workstation and laptops is going through a wireless gateway, and I > > am wondering if perhaps the gateway does not handle ipv6. > > gdm must have been built with IPv6 support, then. Gdm either operates > in IPv4 or v6 modes, and not both (yet). You need to rebuild gdm after > running make rmconfig in the x11/gdm directory. Be sure not to enable > IPv6 support. > > > > > So I suppose my questions are: Why is gdm listening on a upd6 socket? > > Does this imply that gdm is able to _make_ requests via ipv6? Anyone > > else have something similar set up? > > > > By the way, I really would like to do this with XDMCP, instead of via > > SSH, or VNC, etc for the simple reason that I'm not sure I could live > > without virtual desktops in GNOME :-). > > If you run GNOME under VNC, you still get virtual desktop support. I do > it all the time. The contents of my ~/.vnc/xstartup file are: > > #!/bin/sh > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session > > Joe Hey, thanks! Recompiling gdm without IPv6 support took care of the problem. Also, thanks for the tip about VNC. For now, everything is up and running, but I will have to have another look at a few of the VNC ports. -Andrew