----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory S. Hackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:20 PM
Subject: [newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems
> I'm trying to use Xwin-32 and connect to my Linux machine by rlogin. I
> have some experience doing this on OSF machines, there really isn't a lot
> to it. After I uncommented the appropriate lines in inetd.conf so the
> rlogin and rexec demons would actually get going, I was at a stage where I
> could rlogin as a normal interactive session.
>
> Now, when I try to launch an Xwin session, I get a "Connection Closed"
> error. The troubleshooting section of the manual would probably be pretty
> useful to someone who knew what they were doing: it says that the problem
> is one of three things:
> -You are trying to connect using rexec and rexecd or in.rexec will not
> allow the connection to continue.
> -Your host is running SunOs...(I think I can ignore this one)
> -Your host is running a tcp wrapper that closes the connection for
security
> reasons.
>
> What's a TCP wrapper, how do I tell if I'm using one, and how do I turn it
> off? If it turns out that's not the problem, am I just out of luck?
>
> thanks...Greg
>
> --
[SNIP]
XWin 32 (when i used it at least) was a swine to set up with anything too
much other than XDMCP. I seem to recall the manual saying something about
the fact that you absolutely MUST be logging in using the same user name as
that of the netbios name of the windows machine you are trying to login
from.
I also recall that the Linux box needed to be able to resolve your IP
address. I also think there were a couple of places where this resolution
needed to be placed.
Sorry if it's all a bit vague - it's been a while. Certainly i got fantastic
results when i just used XDMCP broadcast mode in full screen - any chance of
trying that instead of rlogin/rexec (obviously i appreciate that might not
fit in with what you are trying to do !)
Martin.
