Mark,

Just out of curiosity, do the remote machines have entries
in the Linux /etc/hosts file?

~4.1 and above, the entry needs to be there to pop remote guis' if 
memory serves.

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Mark Hannum wrote:

> I have a RH 5.0 machine networked with some SGIs and some Windows
> machines.  I have several X-server packages for the windows machines and
> they work fairly well.  The with these packages I have the following
> methods of getting X-clients from the SGI's and the Linux machine to the
> windows machines.  rsh, rexec, XDMCP, and in one of the packages
> rlogin.  All those options work for the SGI unfortunately only rlogin
> works on the Linux box.  If I query the linux box with XDMCP I get a
> login window, I login into the linux box, and then, nothing..... no
> xterms, nothing...  The same thing occurs with rexec and rsh, I make the

You do have /home/user_name/.Xclients file on the Linux box, right?
With something like:

#!/bin/bash
xsetroot -solid SteelBlue &
xterm &

if [ ! -z $(type -path fvwm) ]; then
        exec fvwm
else
        exec twm
fi

> connect and then never get the app that I specified to run.  Any clues
> to why this happens would be great....  BTW I am not actively subscribed
> to the list so please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is the
> address this was sent from.)
> 
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> Mark Hannum
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> 

Rick
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