On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:34:48PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote with possible deletions:
Hi Don, > The only other thing I can > suggest is to check any EXTERNAL (to X) firewall (ipchains or iptables) > rulesets between the "client" and the "server" There are no firewall rulesets between the two boxes. Even 'X -query localhost' on the server produces the same error message. What I found out so far is that simply replacing the xdm binary on the server with a copy from potato (xfree 3.3.6) works. Another workaround is to create a file /etx/Xn.hosts (where n is the display number) on the client containing the server's hostname but this is ugly too. > BTW, I have experimented with XDM, KDM, and GDM and have finally settled > on GDM here. Yes, GDM was working out of the box. But I don't like to install 17 packages to get my display manager working. I'll keep on trying ... Best regards and thanks for your answer, Denny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
