All, Jeff W. posted the following recently (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/2000-05/0214.html) that I tried in an attempt to help me with a problem where I was setting up my inetd.conf (iXvnc or in my case Xvnc 3.3.3R2) file to dynamically allow new remote Xsessions to be started. I sucessfully did it on Solaris 8 but the exact same steps did not work on SuSE Linux 7.0. Again, I get attached and get the Xmouse cursor, but no login, nothing. Most other comments I have seen say that if you don't get a login then you don't have xdm running. I beat my head against the keyboard trying to determine if the xdm (kdm in my case) is running in daemon mode. SuSE runs the xdm process at runlevel 3 not 5 (that took me a minute). I determined that I have two kdm process and from what I could tell the default mode was daemon mode. The options in the xdm-config file were not turning off the default daemon mode so I could only assume that it IS in daemon mode. What I want to know is what these options are doing and specifically what is the requestPort? I actually put back the CHOOSER BROADCAST change and it still works normally so it appears that the only change is to comment out the DisplayManager.requestPort line. Jeff P.S. - Just before I sent this I found a file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/README.SuSE. It states that if you want to use XDMCP you must comment out the requestPort line as shown below. Again, anyone care to help me understand what the requestPort is? ################################### Many people have written the list in the past complaining that when they connect to iXvnc (the vnc server with the inetd patch) all they get is the blank grey xserver screen - and no xdm login screen. I had this problem too, and finally found a solution. In /etc/X11/xdm, the file Xaccess had the following line it: * CHOOSER BROADCAST I simply changed this to * Also, in /etc/X11/xdm-config, I commented out the line DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 (by putting an ! in front of it). Now when I invoke the vncviewer, I actually get the xdm login screen and can start a session. I don't know whether one or both of these changes are necessary, but they worked for me. ##################################### All, Jeff W. posted the following recently (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/2000-05/0214.html) that I tried in an attempt to help me with a problem where I was setting up my inetd.conf (iXvnc or in my case Xvnc 3.3.3R2) file to dynamically allow new remote Xsessions to be started. I sucessfully did it on Solaris 8 but the exact same steps did not work on SuSE Linux 7.0. Again, I get attached and get the Xmouse cursor, but no login, nothing. Most other comments I have seen say that if you don't get a login then you don't have xdm running. I beat my head against the keyboard trying to determine if the xdm (kdm in my case) is running in daemon mode. SuSE runs the xdm process at runlevel 3 not 5 (that took me a minute). I determined that I have two kdm process and from what I could tell the default mode was daemon mode. The options in the xdm-config file were not turning off the default daemon mode so I could only assume that it IS in daemon mode. What I want to know is what these options are doing and specifically what is the requestPort? I actually put back the CHOOSER BROADCAST change and it still works normally so it appears that the only change is to comment out the DisplayManager.requestPort line. Jeff P.S. - Just before I sent this I found a file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/README.SuSE. It states that if you want to use XDMCP you must comment out the requestPort line as shown below. Again, anyone care to help me understand what the requestPort is? ################################### Many people have written the list in the past complaining that when they connect to iXvnc (the vnc server with the inetd patch) all they get is the blank grey xserver screen - and no xdm login screen. I had this problem too, and finally found a solution. In /etc/X11/xdm, the file Xaccess had the following line it: * CHOOSER BROADCAST I simply changed this to * Also, in /etc/X11/xdm-config, I commented out the line DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 (by putting an ! in front of it). Now when I invoke the vncviewer, I actually get the xdm login screen and can start a session. I don't know whether one or both of these changes are necessary, but they worked for me. ##################################### --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
