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From: pv@semt1.smts.cea.fr (Pierre Verpeaux)
Subject: Re: xdm configuration
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:34:27 GMT
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In article <C6ADru.JpF@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, uphya001@odie.uni-bielefeld.de (Lars Koeller,D0-231/258,1065375,0526189607) writes:
|> ---
|> Hello!
|> 
|> We want to configure our X11R5 sytem (i486 33Mhz running BSD-like UNIX)
|> comming up with a chooser menu with different machines on it (works) an then
|> connect to them. But the only connection works is localhost!
|> An 'X -indirect <machine>' works very well!
|> The configuration:
|> 
|> 		- starting the 'xdm' at boot time with no servers specified
|> 		   in Xservers
|> 		- starting the X-server at boot time with X -indirect localhost
|> 
         ...........   more deleted


You need to start the X-server with -indirect its_name.

If you start it with -indirect localhost, it use the loopback adress as
it's adress. So when it try to contact another host, this one try to answer
on its loopback adress. Not good.

Remember that every machine has the adress 127.0.0.1 on the loopback network.

-- 
Pierre Verpeaux 	DMT/SEMT/LAMS		(1)69.08.65.42	
