Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:08:54 -0600 From: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with GDM and XDMCP Message-ID: <1141610934.26138.5.camel@netvista.network> In-Reply-To: <1141604952.30022.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1141595211.738.12.camel@netvista.network> <1141604952.30022.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 19:29 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 15:46 -0600, Andrew wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've a workstation that I'd like to use as a terminal server for several > > laptops. All are running FreeBSD 6, GNOME 2.12, and GDM. XDMCP is > > enabled on the workstation, but I'm not able to login (remotely) with > > any of the latops. If I run XDMCP chooser from GDM, it times out saying > > that it cannot find any available hosts on the local network. sockstat > > shows that gdm is in fact listening on the workstation; however the > > strange bit is that sockstat shows a udp6 connection. I have ipv6 > > disabled in rc.conf on both workstation and laptops. All traffic between > > the workstation and laptops is going through a wireless gateway, and I > > am wondering if perhaps the gateway does not handle ipv6. > > gdm must have been built with IPv6 support, then. Gdm either operates > in IPv4 or v6 modes, and not both (yet). You need to rebuild gdm after > running make rmconfig in the x11/gdm directory. Be sure not to enable > IPv6 support. > > > > > So I suppose my questions are: Why is gdm listening on a upd6 socket? > > Does this imply that gdm is able to _make_ requests via ipv6? Anyone > > else have something similar set up? > > > > By the way, I really would like to do this with XDMCP, instead of via > > SSH, or VNC, etc for the simple reason that I'm not sure I could live > > without virtual desktops in GNOME :-). > > If you run GNOME under VNC, you still get virtual desktop support. I do > it all the time. The contents of my ~/.vnc/xstartup file are: > > #!/bin/sh > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session > > Joe Hey, thanks! Recompiling gdm without IPv6 support took care of the problem. Also, thanks for the tip about VNC. For now, everything is up and running, but I will have to have another look at a few of the VNC ports. -Andrew
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