Hi,

I'm trying to get remote CDE login access from a WinXP box (A) to a
jassed Solaris 9 x86 server (B), via a Windows-based X server software
(XManager 2.0 0502). I can see the X server start, but nothing happens
(as far as I can see), no errors but no login screen either!

The two boxes are on the same LAN (i.e. no firewalls in between), and
there is no hostbased firewall on either boxes.

1. rpc and dtlogin are running on (B) (UDP port 32771);
2. CDE login works OK _locally_ on the Sun box;
3. Xstart xterm works OK from (A) to (B) over SSH;
4. /etc/dt/config/Xaccess is set to *
5. /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/xdm-errors reports nothing
6. I tried XDM broadcast, no joy;
          (returns XDMCP connection failed)
    XDM Query (UDP port 177 or 32771), no joy;
    XDM Indirect (UDP port 177 or 32771), no joy.
7. /var/dt/Xerrors is empty
8. I stopped and restarted dtlogin a few times
    and I also rebooted the Sun server, to no avail.

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance for your help

Loris

Ciccio <lserena@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,

> I'm trying to get remote CDE login access from a WinXP box (A) to a
> jassed Solaris 9 x86 server (B), via a Windows-based X server software
> (XManager 2.0 0502). I can see the X server start, but nothing happens
> (as far as I can see), no errors but no login screen either!

Is the screen solid black or "X windows gray/dithered"?  If it's solid
black, I might think font issues.  If it's "X windows gray", I'd assume
there's a connection or start issue.

Does it do the same thing if you kill dtlogin?

If you snoop from the Solaris machine during the XDMCP query, do you see
the incoming packet?  Does the machine respond?

> 1. rpc and dtlogin are running on (B) (UDP port 32771);
> 2. CDE login works OK _locally_ on the Sun box;
> 3. Xstart xterm works OK from (A) to (B) over SSH;
> 4. /etc/dt/config/Xaccess is set to *
> 5. /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/xdm-errors reports nothing
> 6. I tried XDM broadcast, no joy;
>           (returns XDMCP connection failed)
>     XDM Query (UDP port 177 or 32771), no joy;
>     XDM Indirect (UDP port 177 or 32771), no joy.
> 7. /var/dt/Xerrors is empty
> 8. I stopped and restarted dtlogin a few times
>     and I also rebooted the Sun server, to no avail.

> What am I missing here?

I often have the X server point to the same query host as a font
server.  That cleans up a few issues.

I don't have any idea how you'd do that in XManager, though...

As an example, on cygwin/X11 instead of:

        X -query <solhost> -once

I might instead do

        X -query <solhost> -fp tcp/<solhost>:7100 -once

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Thanks for your reply Darren.

I actually found that it was the line
Dtlogin.requestPort:       0
in /usr/dt/config/Xconfig .

Commenting that line out and restarting dtlogin, got me back in
business.

Cheers

Loris