gdmchooser - XDMCP

[Tom Dawson]

All,

I have a Linux ( RH 9.0 ) workstation that I use to connect to
HP-UX and Solaris servers. The XFree86/Gnome configuration
seems to be working fine for the the most part. I can execute
"startx" and get a very functional Gnome desktop. But I've
been unable to get gdmchooser to work. The gdmconfig program
seems to be concerned with configuring how gdmchooser runs,
not with determining whether gdmchooser or gdmlogin run. I
can set initdefault to run level 5 and get gdmlogin displayed,
but I can't see how to get gdmchooser displayed.

I have had some success though. I can execute -

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect hostname

where 'hostname' is one of my HP-UX or Solaris servers, and
I get the dtchooser displayed listing all the HP-UX and
Solaris servers on the same subnet as 'hostname'. But there's
one drawback, my own workstation, which is on the same subnet,
is not listed as one of the available X servers.

In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf I have-

[xdmcp]
Enable=true
HonorIndirect=true

In /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config -
DisplayManager.requestPort: 177

And in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess I have -

*
* CHOOSER BROADCAST

So I think I have XDMCP broadcasting from my workstation.

Can anyone tell me what I have to do to get my workstation
listed in the dtchooser screens? Or, how do I get gdmchooser
displayed if I set initdefault to run level 5?

TIA,
Tom

[Steven E. Protter]

make sure the HP-UX box is configured properly

check this file.

/etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Make sure the startup variable is set=1

/sbin/init./xfs start

SEP

[Tom Dawson]

Steven,

Thanks, but I'd already been there. I'd even tried this:

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect hostname -fp tcp/hpuxhost:7000

and

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect hostname -fp tcp/localhost:7000

to ensure that X knew where to find a font server. But it didn't seem to help ( or hurt ).

Tom