Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:54:37 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: XDMCP differences in XFree 336 nad XFree 401??? Please help ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011132337450.4591-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. As I posted before, I got some troubles with XFree. I compiled the latest stuff from the ports collection and installed XFree86 401 on two machines without any problems. They offer both a xlogin and I can work. An older system with a kind of ancient graphics adaptor uses XFree 336. From one of the XFree 401 based machines I boot a diskless client and this machine uses XDM to offer a chooser to the diskless client. This works well, no problem. But I can not choose any computer listed in the chooser's list, neither the system I boot from nor any other system. When configuring the diskless client to start X on ttyv0 with a direct query to the XDM host all things work really fine without problems - I get a display and I can work. The same behaviour occurs with the second machine using XFree86 401. This machine is accessible by a direct query but when this machine offers a chooser to my diskless client, I can not choose any host, and especially not that from which I got the chooser and could prior log in by a direct query. The third machine, remember: XFree 336 installed, offers the same behaviour in a direct query: it offers me login and a display. But if this host offers a chooser - with the same hosts as listed in the other machines chooser listed herein, I can access any kind of host I wish. This phenomenon looks to me like the XDM host is not able to forward the query to the specific host, but I do not know how and why it fails. XFree86 401 is compiled with the ports defaults, XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 scheme, secureRPC, PAM support. Does anyone know something about a bug or broken code? What is the difference between XDM 336 and XDM 401? Or is this only caused by myself, a stupid fool not knowing much about the tricks how X11 works? Please help, Email me each hint or tip. I already examined xdm-error file and tried to look with tcpdump whats going on but with no success ... :-( Thanks in advance, Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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