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Problems with dtlogin and XDMCP

807559May 27 2004
Hi;

I am trying to connect to my Solaris 9 box using XDMCP and I am having various degress of sucess. Before I go on I should add that using the same X server as a client on the same remote machine I was able to connect to various other AIX and HP-UX boxes.

The server in question does not run any kind of local display. Therefore, as advised in this article:

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-6486/6ia6232c5?a=view

I have copied the /usr/dt/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers (incidentally I had to create the dt and config directories under /etc even though the documentation implies they already exist). I then edited the file to comment out the:

:0 Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0

line. Of course everything was sent a -HUP after the config files were edited.

Despite this, when I attempt to connect to the machine using `-query machine1` I get a back screen with an egg timer and little else. After a while the connection times out.

On the Solaris box I get another dtlogin spawned to listen for more connections, along with an instance of `dtgreet -display mypc:0` for the machine connecting to it. Forward and reverse name resolution are working correctly for both machines.

Within the /var/dt/Xerrors file I get the following error messages:

/usr/openwin/bin/xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
/usr/openwin/bin/xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

Wed May 26 16:43:25 2004
error (pid 777): display mypc:0 could not be initialized, server may be grabbed.

I am now at a complete and utter loss and would very much appreciate any comments or suggestions anyone has. Many thanks: Sam.
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