How does XDMCP determine display to manage

2001-08-23 Thread Baddah, Shaddy
When an XDM is queried by a display for management, how does it determine the path to that display. For example, display "myhost:0" queries it, does the XDM take this from the XDMCP query, or does it try to resolve this from the XDMCP message (either IP, unix-socket, or other). The reason I ask i

RE: /tmp/.X11-pipe

2001-08-07 Thread Baddah, Shaddy
I'm not the absolute authority on this, but I get the feeling no standard X11 apps will work, as the named socket is usually fixed in the X11 library. Are you aware of the -pn "accept failure to listen on all ports" option, which will allow listening only on the inet port. You can then use the in

Dtlogin again... calling on anyone with XDM workings knowledge

2001-07-30 Thread Baddah, Shaddy
If anyone can assist me in at least understanding how an XDM determines the display name of the display querying it for management, I will be able to come up with my own solution to the problems below. Thanks in advance, Shaddy - From: Baddah, Shaddy Sent: Thursday, July 26

Frustrating dtlogin problem

2001-07-25 Thread Baddah, Shaddy
I run Xvnc on a Solaris 7 host of which I have no admistrative control. This off course restricts my ability to create the unix-socket required to access the display at the unix address. So, I pass the -pn "accept failure to listen on all ports" and use only the inet display name. When I attempt t

RE: Login window

2001-07-25 Thread Baddah, Shaddy
Quek, You mustn't omit the -once option that Steve mentions in his reply. For some reason, the server reset isn't handled correctly with dtlogin. As I understand, this will mean that you will be logged out correctly, but also, that the your Xvnc session is also terminated. I have been using a scr