On Saturday 28 April 2007 15:23, Robert Brockway wrote: Thanks for the response.
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local > > host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE > > loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears > > to be a pure X session with no Windows manager running. I get the hollow > > X cursor, and am able to move it with the mouse. However, neither left > > nor right clicks do any thing - no menu or anything. Clicking and > > dragging doesn't generate a dotted outline selection. No key presses > > appear to do anything. Not sure where to go from here. Hints and > > suggestions welcome. > > Checkout /etc/kde3/kdem/Xaccess to see what sorts of xdmcp access you > are allowing. At the least you want to offer: > > > * #any host can get a login window > > You may also want to allow: > > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a > chooser [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/kde3/kdm# cat Xaccess | grep ^[^#] * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser > Also you need to enable xdmcp in kdmrc: > > # Whether KDM should listen to incoming XDMCP requests. > # Default is true > Enable=true [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/kde3/kdm# cat kdmrc | grep ^[^#] [General] ConfigVersion=2.3 StaticServers=:0 ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3 ServerVTs=-7 ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 PidFile=/var/run/kdm.pid [Xdmcp] Enable=true Willing=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xwilling [Shutdown] [X-*-Core] Setup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup Startup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xstartup Reset=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xreset Session=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession AllowRootLogin=false AllowNullPasswd=false AllowShutdown=Root ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors-%s [X-*-Greeter] LogoArea=Logo LogoPixmap=/usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/kdelogo.png AntiAliasing=true MinShowUID=1000 MaxShowUID=29999 Preloader=/usr/bin/preloadkde Theme=@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@ [X-:*-Core] ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp AllowNullPasswd=true AllowShutdown=All [X-:*-Greeter] PreselectUser=Previous FocusPasswd=true LoginMode=DefaultLocal AllowClose=true [X-:0-Core] ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors [X-:0-Greeter] > Restart kdm at this point. I verified the settings you mentioned, and all were correct. I restarted kdm just to ensure that I hadn't neglected to restart it after changing one of the above when I was doing the initial configuration. No change. > Make sure you backup kdmrc before making any changes so you can rollback > if you break it. > > One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in > Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp > configurations to fail when they really are ok. If you look in your logs > you'll see reports of kdm_greet getting memory corruption if you are > getting this problem. As a result of this problem I recently migrated a > bunch of thin client servers to use gdm instead of kdm. You didn't specify which log but I didn't find any such errors in either kdm.log or Xorg.0.log, nor did I find any other related errors in the log. Maybe I'll try switching to xdm just to see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
