I am also using Solaris on Sparc but I'm using OpenWindows rather than
CDE. I am no expert on CDE but I believe the dtlogin program is the XDMCP
listener and therefore you need to get a corrected dtlogin program or
switch to the OpenWindows xdm program.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Tom Schmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jeff Hall wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>       I am using Solaris 8 on SPARC, not Solaris x86.  I tried replacing
> /usr/openwin/bin/xdm with the X11R6.5.1 version and got the same issue.
>   I don't think xdm is ever being called because I also removed it and
> was still able to successfully lauch Xvnc 3.3.7, but not Xvnc 4.X
> releases.
>
>       "/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon" is the parent process I see being run
> when the CDE login is being done using Xvnc via inetd.  With Xvnc 3.3.7,
> this would spawn /usr/dt/bin/Xsession to launch CDE, but with Xvnc 4.X,
> Xsession never spawns.
>
>       Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks...Tom
>
> > The problem is an incompatibility between Xvnc 4.x and the xdm supplied
> > with Solaris 8/9 (maybe 10 also). The solution that worked for me was to
> > build X11R6 V4.3.0 from source and use its xdm.
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>  >
> > >
> > > Has anyone been able to get Xvnc 4.X to work via inetd on Solaris?  I
> > > have seen other reports here and on Google reporting the same issues,
> > > but I have not found a solution.
> > >
> > > The older Xvnc 3.3.7 works fine with my inetd setup, but I cannot get
> > > Xvnc 4.1.1 or E4.1.6 to work.  The only change to my Xvnc_inetd wrapper
> > > script is the addition of the new required "-SecurityTypes=none" option.
> > >   I have also tried several other options as well with no success.  I
> > > get the CDE login window, which correctly prompts for username and
> > > password, but then the Xvnc window quits as it fails to run dtlogin.  It
> > > appears that Xvnc 4.X does not transfer the UID from root to the user
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > Has anyone got this to work?  If so, please let me know what entries to
> > > /etc/inetd.conf and Xvnc options are needed to make this work.  It is
> > > frustrating that even the Enterprise version of Xvnc fails to work 
> > > properly.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
>
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