[gentoo-user] Need more help with remote access of local X server

[gentoo-user] Need more help with remote access of local X server

[Michael Sullivan]

Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an
arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able
to access my X server.  I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide.  I
followed the guide and set it up.  It worked great for about a week and
then it just kinda stopped.  Now whenever the command "X :1.0 -query
bay" (baby is my computer running Gentoo) is issued all we get on my
wife's computer is a blank screen with an X cursor (pointer) in the
middle of it.  The cursor can be moved around, but the screen remains
blank otherwise.  Since she is using RH9 (which reached its end-of-life
years ago) and she never installs new software on it (a.k.a it never
changes) and my Gentoo system is updated every night, I thought the
problem must be with my computer.  I went back through the LTSP guide
and checked everything - it all looked right.  I've checked the X
windows log files on both machines, but didn't find anything.  Could
something else be causing this that's not mentioned in the guide?  Any
other advice on how to remedy this problem?
-Michael Sullivan-

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[gentoo-user] Re: Need more help with remote access of local X server [SOLVED, (for now)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:42 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an
> arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able
> to access my X server.  I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide.  I
> followed the guide and set it up.  It worked great for about a week and
> then it just kinda stopped.  Now whenever the command "X :1.0 -query
> bay" (baby is my computer running Gentoo) is issued all we get on my
> wife's computer is a blank screen with an X cursor (pointer) in the
> middle of it.  The cursor can be moved around, but the screen remains
> blank otherwise.  Since she is using RH9 (which reached its end-of-life
> years ago) and she never installs new software on it (a.k.a it never
> changes) and my Gentoo system is updated every night, I thought the
> problem must be with my computer.  I went back through the LTSP guide
> and checked everything - it all looked right.  I've checked the X
> windows log files on both machines, but didn't find anything.  Could
> something else be causing this that's not mentioned in the guide?  Any
> other advice on how to remedy this problem?
> -Michael Sullivan-

Nevermind.  I missed something when I was going through the guide.
"Enable" in the [xdmcp] section of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf was set to
false.  Probably by etc-update.  I guess I'd forgotten that I changed
that file...

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