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- From: herber@andy.bgsu.edu (Steve Herber)
- Subject: Re: XDM configuration question...
- Message-ID: <BzCyr3.MGM@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
- References: <BzBB5H.n27@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:23:26 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- buck@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan) writes:
- > In article <BzB5HH.FL8@andy.bgsu.edu> herber@andy.bgsu.edu (Steve Herber) writes:
- >>I have been trying to configure the config files for XDM to allow
- >>a X window login box to appear on my SGI console but to prevent
- >>XDM from responding to network broadcast requests.
- >
- > [[[bunch of deleted stuff was here]]]
- >
- >>...so basicly, how do I turn off the ability for the SGI XDM server
- >>to respond to these network broadcasts?
- > [stuff...]
- > B Cing U
- >
- > Buck
- >
- > P.S. You could set up your X-Terminals to point to a particular machine
- > for XDM service. That is what we do here, but as I found out yesterday
- > when the machine that has my terminals configuration file on is down and
- > I reboot my X-Terminal I get a login prompt for some random machine on the
- > net.
- >
-
- True, This is what I have done here in the short term but that looses
- the redundancy that the broadcast function gives me allowing me to have
- multiple XDM servers on my network.
-
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- Steve
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