Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:46:22 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 4.0.1/XDM broken under FreeBSD 4.X?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011181727200.11180-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. I posted a lot about my problem in -stable, -questions, -newbies and in the newbie-group of xfree86.org, but with non success. Hope I get here some help or a kind of confession about a real existing problem - or the evidence of beeing a little bit stupid ... Well, I would like first to explain my configuration. At this moment we have three FreeBSD 4.2 based servers and a test configuration of one diskless X terminal, which will grow netxt time up to six pieces. These X terminals boot a FreeBSD 4.2 system also, and they start a local X server on ttyv0 with an indirect query to a dedicated XDM host. At first, I installed a basic installation of XFree 4, no tricks, no special applications to our needs. From each host, from each X server I can connect to each local host running X via starting an X server with a direct query. No problem. All machines running XFree 4.0.1_8 fresh out of the ports are connecting (all are compilde with secureRPC, XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 and PAM to YES, but I tried with all NO without effect - nearby: answering "install xdm config" to NO has also no effect, it gets installed, so be aware having made backups already before starting installing!) are connecting without problems to each other host, no matter what version of XFree they' re running (336 or 401). So, this is not what I want. I want all diskless stations to connect to one XDM host offering a chooser. And this definitely does not works under XFree 4.0.1!!! When a XFree401 based X terminal connects to the XDM offering host, it gets a chooser with all machines I wish to be accessible. All the listed machines are reacheable by direct queries, I tested out this. But when selecting one of this hosts out of the XFree401 chooser, it seems that the XDM host is forwarding the request to the target host, but resets itselfs and come back with the select list. This behaviour seems not to be FreeBSD specific due some tests with Linux (SuSE 7.0 and SuSE 6.4) running XFree401. For the case you're running a chooser based on XFree 4 you will not get any connection! I checked my endless times and it is correct! Curiousity is: I exchanged Xfree 401 with XFree336 on the XDM/chooser offering host - and now, voila, all things work like a charme! I think it is a problem of forwarding XDMCP requests which is not correctly performed by the 401-chooser, but by 336-chooser, or I'm wrong? Does anybody know about this problem? Well, it is not very likely that I'm they only fool who's running a XDM host offering a chooser for several X servers/clients around, so is anyone out here in the FreeBSD/Xfree community who has running on both sides XFree401 and can offer and forward host connections throughout the XDM host? If this is the fact, something must be wrong with my installation - or simply the fact living in Germany is some kind of trouble-making reason (DES restrictions and other little stupid things making life so hard ...). Please mail me if you have any kind of hint, tip or maybe a solution ... Thanks a lot. Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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