Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

[Harold L Hunt II]

Curt,

I get:

udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:*
31622/kdm

So, looks like everything is okay in that department.

Hmm... we did ask you if you have EVER had firewall/vpn software installed on your machine, right?

Harold

Curt Lindner wrote:

John, I did the netstat command, and here's the response:

# netstat -plun | grep 177
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:*
2553/kdm
#

kdm is listening, but I wonder if the udp line might be indicative of a
problem.

Thanks,

-Curt

From: John Buttery <john at io dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:11:50 -0600
Subject: Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

* Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-25 15:08:38 -0500]:

I don't know that Port=177 and Willing=[anything] are necessary. But
then, I do not know much about that.

No, they're not necessary; you should probably comment Willing= out
until you know what it does, and 177 is the default port so commenting
that line out is fine also.

What I do know is that you have to restart kdm in order for those
changes to take effect. The easiest way to do that, short of
restarting your machine, is to drop to run level 3, then go back to
run level 5.

You do that by running:
init 3
[wait about a minute]
init 5

Or run "service dm restart". :)

One side question: you DO see a graphical login screen when you sit
down at your linux machine, right? If not, you aren't running kdm so
XDMCP connections are not being accepted simply because you are not
running a program that accepts them.

Or you might be running kdm, on port 177, but not allowing any actual
accesses. I don't know about kdm, but its daddy xdm has a configuration
file /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess for that sort of thing. Try running:

# netstat -plun | grep 177

...and see if kdm is listening; if it is, you have an error in your
permissions/configuration.

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John Buttery