From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 23:40:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C8410656E5 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C998FC19 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NY6d6-00053p-OV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:08 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NY6d6-0001Nq-1r for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:00 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0LNdxPS056328 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:39:59 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0LNdxgi056327 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:39:59 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:39:59 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100121233959.GA56312@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100121185441.GB4125@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Subject: Re: xdm and xdmcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:09 -0000 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 21/01/2010 8:54 ??.??., rhino64@postmail.ch wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is-it possible to run xdm with remote access through XDMCP protocol on freebsd 8 ? > > > > Yes. I have an entire lab working this way :) > > > I have tried almost anything: commenting line about port 0 in xdm-config, > > > > This is needed. > > > modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter "udpPort 177". > > > > The command "netstat -a" never indicates that a process is listening on that port. > > > > The notes in Xaccess seem to indicate that when a LISTEN line is not > present, it works like LISTEN * > I found this to be false. Please insert a LISTEN line with your IP > address, i.e. > > LISTEN 10.14.28.10 > > With wdm, the listening is possible but I cannot start the X server even if the server alone > > is perfectly working and if it is correctly started by xdm. > > > > I don't want to use kdm or gdm since they are too heavy (almost all kde and gnome should be > > installed with them). > > > > > > Same here, I use XDM for login - I don't need anything fancy. About 15 > terminals running XFCE through a core2quad machine. I'm running xdm on ia64 and connecting from sparc64, both 9.0-current, works fine. I could probably share my xdm config files, if this is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423