What are methods to let xdm to know the IP of terminals through XDMCP ? On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 8:09 PM Alan Coopersmith < alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/24 06:52, intmail01 wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Are there any methods to list IP address in Xservers file configuration > by using > > wildcard or any form of address range ? Because IP can not be known in > advance > > for terminal and they can be set randomly by the dhcp. > > I try to set an wildcard like 172.168.0.*:0 but it doesnt work. > > Do you mean the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file used by the xdm display manager? > If so, then no, because each entry is a display to be managed, so something > like 172.168.0.*:0 would start up 256 display managers, each trying to > contact one of those IP addreesses to run an X session on. > > If you can't configure the DHCP server to give stable addresses to the X > terminals, then you'll need to configure the X terminals to use XDMCP to > let the xdm server know what IP address they're running on. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris >
