Newbe with question about xdmcp

[Nick THOMPSON]

You could also try using the "-from <ip addr>" Xwin parameter to send
the PC IP address to the *nix box

Nick.

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 20:17, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:37, Ben Clewett wrote:
> 
> > Odd.  I start it using the CygWin DOS command:
> >
> > start Win -query %KDE_HOST% -no decoration -less pointer -ftp
> > tsp/%KDE_HOST%:7100
> >
> > Which has always just worked.  Which is why I liked it so much.
> >
> > But 0.0.0.0:0 can also mean NULL, as in an uninitialised variable.  As
> > in the previous comment 'kdm_config[26231]: Can't read from core'.
> 
> Hmm, perhaps there is some corription in the config file and KDM isn't reading 
> relevant portions.
> 
> > I did notice that 'xdmcp' was hard to configure.  Had to be completed by
> > hand.  Setting up font servers, dabbling into very confusing security
> > protocols, sometimes getting KDE applications starting on the wrong
> > desktop.
> 
> I only did it manually once, just removing comments from the standard config.
> 
> Can you try a second XServer on the same machine using XDMCP to connect to 
> KDM?
> For example Xnest running in the first session,
> 
> > Do you know whether future KDE models might have a more robust mechanism
> > set up for xdmcp?
> 
> Sorry, no idea.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin

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