[wplug] XDMCP and Kitchen Terminals

[Evan DiBiase]

Hello,

I'm trying to convert my family's main computer to RedHat 8.0 (from 
Windows XP), and I think it will go rather well based on what I've seen 
of the distribution's desktop features so far.

One of the major selling points, I think, will be that ability of my 
family's "kitchen" computer (which has been running Linux for about 6 
months now) to act as an XDMCP client to the computer in the loft, 
because it would be great to have all of my family's data available to 
them in the kitchen, without having to go upstairs.

Unfortunately, I cannot get things to work. I have enabled XDMCP on the 
RedHat 8.0 machine ("central" -- the one in the loft), and believe I 
have punched 177:tcp and 177:udp through the firewall with lokkit, so 
everything should be fine there (although I've noticed that I cannot 
telnet to localhost:177 on central).

On the kitchen computer, I've tried running "X -query central", "X 
-query 192.168.1.5" (central's IP), and "X -broadcast", all to no 
avail. The first few times I try, X comes up with the classic default 
background and X mouse cursor, and nothing else. After a few tries, the 
server will die after a second or so, saying that the XDMCP server said 
it had too many connections from that one host. This leads me to 
believe (understandably) that the kitchen computer is getting through 
to central, but that central isn't serving up the goods.

Is there anything else I can check here? The last time I used XDMCP was 
a good three years ago, and I'm sorry to say that any information I 
gleaned during that time has pretty much left me.

Thanks,
Evan