XDMCP enabling

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Apr 15 13:55:50 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:59 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Garry Harthill <gazzerh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 08/04/06, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > "Garry Harthill" <gazzerh at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On 08/04/06, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> "Garry Harthill" <gazzerh at gmail.com> writes:
> > > >>
> > > >> > On 06/04/06, Skidmore, Stanley G <stanley.g.skidmore at boeing.com> wrote:
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Good Afternoon,
> > > >> >> Does anybody have any experience in enabling XDMCP? What all needs to be
> > > >> >> tuned on or is there a interface that may help? Any assistance would be
> > > >> >> greatly appreciated.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Stan
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Take a look in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. Scroll down to the following section:
> > > >> > [xdmcp]
> > > >> > Enable=true
> > > >>
> > > >> I can't find this file in FC5.
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Leon
> > > >>
> > > > That file is there in FC4. This machine uses GDM.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe the config is in /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc
> > > >
> > > > It depends what display manager you are using - GDM or KDM.
> > >
> > > Things in fc5 must have been changed substantially. I'm using gdm and
> > > gnome 2.14 but no xdm or gdm dir in /etc/X11.
> > >
> > > Maybe /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf is gdm.conf in fc4.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > Leon
> >
> > Yeah. It looks that way. Should really be in /etc/X11. Or at least
> > /etc/gdm or something. Gets very annoying when the goal posts are
> > moved like this :/
> >
> 
> Also I found that I need to enable a port 177 of udp in firewall by
> manual not like before which is automatically set.
> 
> Wong Kwok Hon
Some of this has been discussed several times on the list. gdm
configuration (including XDMCP) is done through the gdmsetup program in
FC5.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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