XDMCP and FC2T2 Problems

[Alex Thomas]

Thank you.  I did not realize that gdm was picky about forward/reverse
mappings.

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 09:38, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:18:56PM -0500, Alex Thomas wrote:
> > Is anybody else having problems running a remote x session using xdmcp? 
> > I start using X -query 192.160.0.1 and I get an Xwindow with the
> > standard black/white background and that is it. I have GDM configured to
> > allow xdmcp and have graphical greeter turned on for remote
> > connections.  Non FC2T2 side, I am running Cygwin's Xserver.
> 
> gdm requires that
> 1. Its running 8)
> 2. You enable remote xdmcp handling (off by default)
> 3. Your firewall isnt blocking xdmcp
> 4. Yoru DNS forward/reverse mappings are right (dumb design bug in gdm)
> 
> Alan
>