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From: mcneild@mcneild.misemi (Doug McNeil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Xdm in X
Keywords: XDM, X, sessions
Message-ID: <1170@mcneild.misemi>
Date: 25 Oct 89 12:45:02 GMT
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Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
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More X woes. I've recently tried to run _xdm_ remotely on a PC running PC/Xview.
I read the Interactive documentation on _xdm_, decided the defaults would work
well for me, so I just added an entry in the default _Xservers_ file for the PC.
Then I ran _xdm_ (in debug mode, natch). Some debug stuff appeared on _xdm_'s
controlling screen and (miracle dictu) a _login_ window appeared on the remote
PC. So I logged on. Some debug stuff saying that I was indeed a valid user
appeared on the controlling screen and that a session was being started for me.
Then immediately after I was informed that the session had croaked. The up shot
of this is that I can logon via _xdm_ all day long but I can't do anything
because all sessions initialized by _xdm_ fail (I don't believe it is getting as
far as running the session script).

Any Ideas.

Thanks.

Doug McNeil			uunet!mitel!spock!mcneild