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RE: XDM


> Simply login into the NT box from another station (running 
> another X server)
> or from my station (a graphical telnet :-)). 

huh?
Ok let us know when you can login to NT box :-)

Suhaib

>For now, the 
> test that I do
> simply offer a login screen that logs no one (xdm runs under 
> my account, but
> this is a first step). But it doesn't work. After the 
> Verify(...) call, it
> tries to close the login window and the X server disappear 
> with exit code 0
> (and now the .Xauthority file is filled in). When my Xsession 
> file is run, I
> got _X11Trans... error (due to the fact that the X server has exited).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Suhaib Siddiqi [SMTP:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:02 PM
> > To:	'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> > Subject:	RE: XDM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Can you explain what do you really want to do with xdm on Windows?
> > Login into what?  
> > 
> > Suhaib
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rouyre Frédéric [mailto:Frederic.Rouyre@osl.be]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:54 AM
> > > To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> > > Subject: RE: XDM
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, it seems that the X server crashes just after the 
> > > Greeting Windows got
> > > the password, so its the authentication of the 
> > > user that makes the XDM child process crash (I'm 
> > > investigation further but
> > > if someone is interested in XDM on NT, help is appreciated)
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:	Rouyre Frédéric [SMTP:Frederic.Rouyre@osl.be]
> > > > Sent:	Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:08 PM
> > > > To:	'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> > > > Subject:	XDM
> > > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > 	I was really interested in having the XDM daemon 
> > > running on my NT4
> > > > box (i admit it can be dangerous due to the way it is being 
> > > run but its
> > > > just
> > > > a test...). After changing some stuff in the code of 
> > > xdm-332 (the only one
> > > > I
> > > > could get in a single tar...) I got the wanted window. But 
> > > what happens is
> > > > strange. If I make a copy of the authfile to .Xauthority in 
> > > my home dir, I
> > > > can execute an X clients. If I remove it, connections are 
> > > refused by the
> > > > server (that's normal, I suppose). If now I try to log on, 
> > > it seems that
> > > > the
> > > > .Xauthority file is empty. Where do I have to look for 
> > > stuff to change? Do
> > > > you think it could be due to error caused by cygwin calls 
> > > or due to a
> > > > *BUGGY* authentication method? (well, every password 
> > > "works" for now).
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
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