Re: XWin -indirect

[Bill Schaffer <bill_schaffer at centercall dot com>]

Thanks!

That was the tip I needed.  The one machine that couldn't access the 
others via "XWin -query" was the one I picked to test with.  I went 
over to one of the other Win systems, did the "-indirect" and had no 
problems.

A Windows firewall issue.

I hate when that happens.

Thanks muchly,
-Bill





Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Bill Schaffer wrote:
>
>
> > The problem:
> >
> > Well, the user does get the list of systems, however, they can only
> > access the system specified as the parameter to the "indirect" option.
> >  All of the other systems are blocked from accessing the XWin server
> > on the user's machine, including the user's own machine.  An excerpt
> > from kdm log output on one of the Linux systems:
> >
> >      Hung in XOpenDisplay(users_system_addr:0), aborting
> >      server open failed for users_system_addr:0, giving up
> >
> > This seems like an access control problem with XWin at the user's
> > system.  I would like to run "xhost +" but the local system can't
> > access XWin either.  (Yes, I realize the security implications, but
> > want to get it working first)  I have tried establishing an
> > "/etc/X0.host" file, but XWin seems to disregard it.
>
>
> XDMCP overrides the xhost access system. More likely a firewall is blocking
> access from the system. Are all hosts on the same network?
>
> Running some tracing with tcpdump may help.
>
> bye
>         ago
> NP: SITD - Wegweiser

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