the infamous CDE / XDMCP

[antonio elder prado]

Hi, I have read others post and questions regarding the cde / xdmcp on hpux 11.31, but still could not find something for my problem.

i have a rx2660 that i needed to install the full OS (strangely enough, the machine we bought it did not come with any OS, but only with the DVDs).
After the install
i can see the CDE at the console,
but i cannot use reflection because on broadcasting it does not display the machine / IP in the list of available for xdmcp.

another strange thing, on another machine that is in all aspects similar to this problematic, i have the cde and xdmcp; on console and remotely (via reflection X) the difference is that on the console i have the machine hostname, and on the machine with problem i have a message "Authorized users only. ..." and no hostname, is there anything that you might think i should disable? or am i missing something?

thank you for your help.

./antonio/.

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

I don't do much with XDMCP, so I know
nothing, but ...

> After the install

Did "the install" include configuring a
network interface?

> [...] and no hostname, [...]

hostname
ifconfig lan0

Can you reach the problem system using any
common network scheme (Telnet, remsh/rsh,
ssh, ping, ...) from anywhere else?

Have you looked at (compared with another)
"/usr/dt/config/Xaccess"?

[antonio elder prado]

Hi Steven,
sorry for the late reply, but several of my servers crashed (power outage beyond UPS...)

yes, i can access the problematic server via telnet as well as ssh. The same applies to the server that it has the xmdcp and i can access also via reflection X.

I need to check the server for the Xaccess.

will reply as i bring that machine up,

thank you Steven for your help,
./antonio/.

[Tim Nelson]

if the dtsession processes are running you should be able to do a *direct* XDMCP via reflection. ( broadcast may not work due to a number of reasons)

BTW, CDE is not installed by default on 11.31, your comment that you see it on the console would lead me to to believe that you selected it during install but it is always good to confirm.)

swlist CDE
(need more than just the LIBS)

[antonio elder prado]

Tim and Steven,

thank you for your help on this, but it ended up on being the bastille (at least i think).
On the machine with the problem it is the machine where i ran the bastille. I was kind of suspicious about this because on the CDE of problem machine, there was no hostname, only a message about accessing the machine and being monitored, etc.
So to fix (at least temporarily) i did run bastille -r to reverse any configuration.
it is interesting that on the bastilled system, it created something like Xaccess.bastille.
and i did copy the Xaccess un-bastilled file.



thank you both your time,
./antonio/.

[antonio elder prado]

1. disable bastille with the # bastille -r (it reverses back to pre-bastille status).
2. run the xfs from /etc/rc.config.d
3. run the /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

thank you,
./antonio/.