Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/25/2002 - 20:38. General Questions
Hello,
I am using an NCD900 running mwm 1.1 locally on the NC. The xdm login window is coming from a solaris 2.8 box. I open a login using the NCD `xpsh -access xpsh mwm` comand. When on the native port of the solaris box, I can pick up the users .mwmrc. When I connect the NC off a switch/router connected to the solaris box using qfe1, qfe0 on a quad card or any other port with a different subnet I gat a message on the NC stating that it cannot find the users .mwmrc. I am sharing the proper directories and the same user picks up his .mwmrc from the native hme0 port. Any ideas why the nc cannot find the users "/home/shark/.mwmrc. This has me perplexed and frustrated.
Mark
I don`t know, but apparently NCD still exists and may have an answer for you.
I`ve recently setup XMD on a network with more than one segment.
1st Check that your XDMCP packets are being transferd between server and client correctly. (Arriving and with the right headers with improper rewrites by intermediate servers, blocked ports, etc...)
2nd you have to have `xdm` setup properly on both sides. This does not require file sharing at all - I don`t see why you meantioned it. You serve xdm session from a server and have clients log into saved saved sessions with no file sharing at all. You might use `nfs` if the client was also using the server for their /home directory as well - which isn`t required.
Are you sure you understand the capabilities of xdm?
Hi,
Let me be more informative )
Run xdm on both sides.
One side gives the login and host avail. host list.
The other side (which may be local) is where the X session exists.
$HOME/.Xsession is on the client machine.
The xdm config files must be set up appropriately on both (all) sides (which may be local) offering the session.
You could have, on your local machine Xsessions going that were managed on two different hosts and a local session too.
I use a remote host along with nfs to collate my $HOME and things onto one easy to multiply and remotely access, easy to back up place host.
Hope that was better )
John Hendrickson
OOPS
I`ll re meantion the idea of setting up allotment for XDMCP packets AND permissions in the (/etc/X11/xdm/*) config files.
The config files for both sides must be appropriate. Network fileshare isn`t a required.