XDMCP in Solaris9

UltraSoul · 08-05-2005, 12:15 AM

I use solaris 9 in my sun blade 1500 workstation. I want to enable the
remote access from my win pc through XDMCP.
Then, I found the solution to this configuratoin in www.sun.com.

To allow XDMCP access from the remote host with GDM,
modify xdmcp entry in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file:

FROM:
[xdmcp]
Enable=false

To:
[xdmcp]
Enable=true

#svcadm restart svc:/application/gdm2-login:default

But my system is solaris 9. I wonder if there is a XDMCP
solution to solaris 9.

jlliagre · 08-05-2005, 01:27 AM

/usr/dt/config/Xaccess
and "man xdm" would help you understanding how it works on Solaris 9.

UltraSoul · 08-05-2005, 02:28 AM

Thank u for the quick answer.
I enter "man xdm"
But there is no xdm manual in my sun workstation.
How should I add the manual?

Now I use Xmanager to access the remote sun workstation.
Because there is a firewall (router) between the windows PCs with private IP address
and the applicatoin sun workstation with a public IP address. So I just can login the
remote sun workstation by xstart with ssh.

But I want to use XDCMP for loginning the remote sun workstation. In the Xmanager
official site the manual give me that the port numberof 177:UDP, 23,22:TCP in the re
mote sun workstaion must be opened for the communication through a firewall. I wo
nder some manage software in solaris 9. ---> Sun Screen is a good one ? or otherelse.
For ex, IPsec.

jlliagre · 08-05-2005, 02:49 PM

Quote:

I enter "man xdm"
But there is no xdm manual in my sun workstation.
How should I add the manual?

man not finding it doesn't mean it's not there, maybe is it just somewhat hidden.
try:

Code:

$ export MANPATH=/usr/dt/man:/usr/man:/usr/openwin/share/man:\
/usr/man:/opt/csw/man
$ man xdm

and see if it improves.

About the firewall question, sunscreen is certainly a good software, but I've not that much experience with it, nor with any other firewall by the way, sorry.

I hope you have a high throughput and response time available between both machines, as remotely running the whole graphic environment is network resource intensive.

UltraSoul · 08-06-2005, 01:46 AM

I want to show u the result for #echo $MANPATH

#echo $MANPATH
/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/openwin/share/man:/usr/local/samba/man:/usr/dt/man:
/opt/csw/man:/usr/openwin/man

#man xdm
No manual for xdm

#which xdm
/usr/openwin/xdm

#find /usr/openwin -name xdm -print
/usr/openwin/bin/xdm
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/xdm
/usr/openwin/lib/xdm

The above info is for the xdm program in my sun workstation. How can I get the manual info
from the above infomation?

jlliagre · 08-06-2005, 11:12 AM

The xdm manual page is in /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/xdm.1

If you're missing it, your Solaris installation is incomplete, add the SUNWxwman package from your distribution CDs.

By the way, xdm is there, but isn't the regular display manager under Solaris 9.
The one commonly running and used is dtlogin, part of CDE.
You cannot have both dtlogin and xdm running at the same time.

Just in case you are missing dtlogin manual page too, it is in /usr/dt/share/man/man1/dtlogin.1, and part of the SUNWdtma package.

An extensive CDE login manager documentation can be found at
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802...a6232c5?a=view