On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 04:14:41PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote > Is there any way I can allow remote hosts to access my machine via xdmcp > without running xdm on the machine itself? (running xdm seems to lock > the machine completely on a regular basis). Would running xdm without > managing any local displays solve the locking-up problem? Alternatively, > does anyone have any experience with whether any of the other display > managers (kdm, wdm, gdm, login.app, ...) solve the problem of locking > machines up? Do those provide xdmcp?
I have a very similar setup here using Slink (x*_3.3.2.3a-11.deb) with no problems; xdm doesn't manage any displays directly, it just does the XDMCP bit. Perhaps you have other problems, or your xdm is broken? In slink at least, wdm and login.app don't appear to support XDMCP. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
