Re: XDCMP

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi Rob,

I changed the prefdm pointer as indicated and it works, thanks...

Ahbaid.

Rob Napier wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:32:01AM -0500, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > through the kindness of someone on the list I have been able to upgrade
> > to RH6.1,
> >
> > thanks again, you know who you are ....
> >
> > I foud myself unable to get an XDCMP connection using Hummingbird on an
> > NT box...
> >
> > I edited the file
> >
> > /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> >
> > to allow any host access by using "*" as a pattern...
> >
> >
> > is this the only place to do this? Have i missed anything?
>
> First, are you sure you're using xdm. I believe the default with RH6.1
> is gdm. However, gdm in RH6.0 (haven't checked 6.1 yet) had a bug in
> it that prevented access from remote hosts (I believe the bug was that
> it was misconfigured).
>
> Start by looking at /etc/X11/prefdm with "ls -l /etc/X11/prefdm". See
> what this points to. If it points to gdm, switch it to xdm by doing
> this:
>
> rm /etc/X11/prefdm
> ln -s /usr/X11/bin/xdm /etc/X11/prefdm
> kill `pidof prefdm`
>
> (warning, this will kill your X session, so do this from the console)
>
> Rob
>
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