Re: Not getting login using xdmcp

[Takuma Murakami <murakami at ipl dot t dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp>]

Dear Andrew,

It seems you have configured it careful enough.  It looks
so hard to figure out problems.

I found an article which might be similar to your problem.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2003-Jul/0003.html
Does it help?

Takuma Murakami (murakami@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)


> I have a SuSE 8.2 installation. I am attempting to use Cygwin/XFree86 to 
> start an X session using XDMCP. XDMCP is not on by default so I have 
> performed the following changes:
> 
>     * Enabled XDMCP in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc by setting
>       "Enable=true" for the [Xdmcp] section.
>     * Modified /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config to comment out
>       DisplayManager.requestPort by putting a "!" in the first character.
>     * Uncommented the "*" line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and
>       /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess. Note there are two different
>       lines in each file. The difference seems to be one is of the form
>       of "* CHOOSER BROADCAST" and just the plain "*". I've tried all
>       combinations to no avail.
>     * I have only one NIC.
>     * I've tried xwin -query sonslinux -from adefaria, same problem.
>     * Sonslinux sits right next to me and I can login using KDE just
>       fine on the console - I just can't get a remote X session from my
>       XP box to put up a chooser.
>     * XWin.log always seems to indicate "XDM: too many retransmissions"
>       as the problem (Sample XWin.log attached). Note that XDM: too many
>       retransmissions only shows up after waiting for a while.
>     * Nothing listed in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/kdm.log on sonslinux.