Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Curt,

I get:

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:177             0.0.0.0:*
31622/kdm

So, looks like everything is okay in that department.

Hmm... we did ask you if you have EVER had firewall/vpn software 
installed on your machine, right?

Harold

Curt Lindner wrote:

> John, I did the netstat command, and here's the response:
>
> # netstat -plun | grep 177
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:177             0.0.0.0:*
> 2553/kdm
> #
>
> kdm is listening, but I wonder if the udp line might be indicative of a
> problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Curt
>
> From: John Buttery <john at io dot com>
> To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:11:50 -0600
> Subject: Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP
>
> * Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> [2003-01-25 15:08:38 -0500]:
>  
> > I don't know that Port=177 and Willing=[anything] are necessary.  But
> > then, I do not know much about that.
> >    
>  No, they're not necessary; you should probably comment Willing= out
> until you know what it does, and 177 is the default port so commenting
> that line out is fine also.
>
>  
> > What I do know is that you have to restart kdm in order for those
> > changes to take effect.  The easiest way to do that, short of
> > restarting your machine, is to drop to run level 3, then go back to
> > run level 5.
> >
> > You do that by running:
> > init 3
> > [wait about a minute]
> > init 5
> >    
>  Or run "service dm restart".  :)
>
>  
> > One side question: you DO see a graphical login screen when you sit
> > down at your linux machine, right?  If not, you aren't running kdm so
> > XDMCP connections are not being accepted simply because you are not
> > running a program that accepts them.
> >    
>  Or you might be running kdm, on port 177, but not allowing any actual
> accesses.  I don't know about kdm, but its daddy xdm has a configuration
> file /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess for that sort of thing.  Try running:
>
> # netstat -plun | grep 177
>
>  ...and see if kdm is listening; if it is, you have an error in your
> permissions/configuration.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Buttery
>
>