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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: what am I doing wrong with xdm
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Date: 22 Sep 90 14:21:30 GMT
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    	     xdm -server "ncdxt1:0 NCD-19 foreign"
    I indeed get communication between the DECstation and the NCD, plus a
    logon window on the NCD, but I cannot login, probably because I keep
    getting multiple copies of xdm running, each of which puts a new logon\
    window onto the NCD.

It's extremely difficult to diagnose xdm problems unless you provide a
fair amount of information.  Where are you running xdm from?  What
release of xdm is it?  What do your configuration files look like?
Does your NCD have XDMCP enabled?  Have you tried running xdm with the
-debug 9 option and looked at the trace?  Such a trace can be very
helpful in figuring out problems.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that you have XDMCP enabled in your NCD.
In that case, you don't want to list the terminal as a server at all,
just run xdm and let the NCD auto-connect to it.  If that's the wrong
guess, then trace and other information would be useful.