Re: Using gdm/xdm with Redhat and OS X

[Ian Thomas]

On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:44 PM, Ian Thomas wrote:

I have a Redhat 8.0 box that I would like to login to via xdm from an OS X machine. Ignoring security issues, I have the following set up on the Redhat box,

/etc/xdm/xdm-config
! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0

/etc/xdm/Xservers
[my ip address]:0 foreign

/etc/xdm/Xaccess
* # any host can get a login window

/etc/gdm/gdm.conf
[xdmcp]
Enable=true

I switched my defualt run level from 3 to 5 so X would start up when the system does. I'm sure there is a way to do this without changing inittab, but I want to get this working first, and then get it working right later. I attempt to get a gdm login screen on my OS X box by doing the following from the terminal,

/usr/X11R6/bin/XDarwinStartup -query [my redhat ip]

After telling X to start in Full Screen mode, I get the following error,

AUDIT: Tue Dec 24 12:17:35 2002: 1380 XDarwin: client 1 rejected from local host
Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1

Any suggestions on which side the problem lies? Redhat or Mac OS X?

Ian P. Thomas

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The AUDIT errors are gone but I still can't get a login screen. Here are the processes running on the Redhat machine

root 812 0.1 4.7 12696 2944 ? S 14:47 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root 863 0.0 1.8 3916 1124 ? S 14:47 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/X11/gdm/XKeepsCrashing
root 872 0.0 0.4 1236 276 ? S 14:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdmopen /etc/X11/gdm/XKeepsCrashing -noopen
root 873 0.0 1.8 3924 1136 tty7 S 14:47 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/X11/gdm/XKeepsCrashing -noopen
root 883 0.0 1.4 3432 880 tty7 S 14:47 0:00 /usr/bin/dialog --yesno I cannot start the X server

I am now getting

XDM: too many retransmissions
XDM: too many retransmissions

On the OS X side. It seems I'm closer to success. Any suggestions welcomed.

Ian P. Thomas

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