Hello All,
I have read previous posts about running this RS/6000 headless and using
XDM, but what I don't understand is how I could get this machine to run
as a XDMCP broadcast node. I commented all lines in the Xservers file
and xdm runs fine now since its not trying to launch X locally. However
launching a X -query from a cygwin terminal just gets me the blank X
server background. Is XDMCP turned off by default or perhaps I need to
change auth settings for X? I just noticed one thing, DISPLAY is not
set globally on our machine, (when xdm launches it has no DISPLAY
variable), I have not had to set this up before I believe for xdm.
xdm-errors only has "display 0.0.0.0:0 cannot be opened". Our goal is
for the AIX server to respond to XDMCP chooser requests.
Thanks!
Collin McClendon

Collin McClendon wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have read previous posts about running this RS/6000 headless and using
> XDM, but what I don't understand is how I could get this machine to run
> as a XDMCP broadcast node. I commented all lines in the Xservers file
> and xdm runs fine now since its not trying to launch X locally. However
> launching a X -query from a cygwin terminal just gets me the blank X
> server background. Is XDMCP turned off by default or perhaps I need to
> change auth settings for X? I just noticed one thing, DISPLAY is not
> set globally on our machine, (when xdm launches it has no DISPLAY
> variable), I have not had to set this up before I believe for xdm.
> xdm-errors only has "display 0.0.0.0:0 cannot be opened". Our goal is
> for the AIX server to respond to XDMCP chooser requests.
> Thanks!
> Collin McClendon
>

Simply change in "/usr/dt/config/Xservers"
"local@console" to "local@none" and you'll see your box responding to
all kinds of xdmcp requests.

This is for the standard CDE login. If you want AIXwindows, you have to
change another "Xservers" file accordingly.

---
Uli

"Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link" <"Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link"@Epost.de>
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> Collin McClendon wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I have read previous posts about running this RS/6000 headless and
using
> > XDM, but what I don't understand is how I could get this machine to
run
> > as a XDMCP broadcast node. I commented all lines in the Xservers
file
> > and xdm runs fine now since its not trying to launch X locally.
However
> > launching a X -query from a cygwin terminal just gets me the blank X
> > server background. Is XDMCP turned off by default or perhaps I need
to
> > change auth settings for X? I just noticed one thing, DISPLAY is
not
> > set globally on our machine, (when xdm launches it has no DISPLAY
> > variable), I have not had to set this up before I believe for xdm.
> > xdm-errors only has "display 0.0.0.0:0 cannot be opened". Our goal
is
> > for the AIX server to respond to XDMCP chooser requests.
> > Thanks!
> > Collin McClendon
> >
>
> Simply change in "/usr/dt/config/Xservers"
> "local@console" to "local@none" and you'll see your box responding to
> all kinds of xdmcp requests.
>
Shouldn't one copy Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers and then edit
that copy
(and then restart dtlogin -daemon)?

--
RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.

Thanks very much for the suggestion, will do and let you know..
-Collin


Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link wrote:
> Collin McClendon wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>> I have read previous posts about running this RS/6000 headless and using
>> XDM, but what I don't understand is how I could get this machine to
>> run as a XDMCP broadcast node. I commented all lines in the Xservers
>> file and xdm runs fine now since its not trying to launch X locally.
>> However launching a X -query from a cygwin terminal just gets me the
>> blank X server background. Is XDMCP turned off by default or perhaps I
>> need to change auth settings for X? I just noticed one thing, DISPLAY
>> is not set globally on our machine, (when xdm launches it has no
>> DISPLAY variable), I have not had to set this up before I believe for
>> xdm. xdm-errors only has "display 0.0.0.0:0 cannot be opened". Our
>> goal is for the AIX server to respond to XDMCP chooser requests.
>> Thanks!
>> Collin McClendon
>>
>
> Simply change in "/usr/dt/config/Xservers"
> "local@console" to "local@none" and you'll see your box responding to
> all kinds of xdmcp requests.
>
> This is for the standard CDE login. If you want AIXwindows, you have to
> change another "Xservers" file accordingly.
>
> ---
> Uli
>
>