[Re: Xwin32]

[Sean]

I think they shut it off by default when they moved to xinet.d.  (RH
7.x)  You probably will want to restrict access to prevent some of the
buffer overflow stuff that was going on if you can.

Sean



On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com wrote:

> >?  Unless RedHat does things oddly, then its xdm/kdm/gdm will not
> broadcast
> >XDMCP to anything in the default mode.  You want to change
> >/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers on the machine where you're running so that it
> includes
> >the following line:
> >
> >IP.OF.REMOTE.MACHINE:0 foreign
>
> I was under the impression that you only need to add foreign server
> entries if the server *doesn't* support XDMCP.  I use kdm and gdm both
> with default RedHat and Mandrake (and Slackware) installs and have never
> had to tweak that file to get my servers to connect.
>
> PaulM
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