No Remote Access to the Display Manager

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Symptom

The remote access to the display manager does not work.

Cause

The access variable has not been set or is missing from the files /etc/rc.config or /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.

Solution

If you use SuSE Linux up to version 7.3, please append the following line at the end of /etc/rc.config:

DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes"
If you use SuSE Linux version 8.0 or higher, you can find this variable in file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.

Finally, please execute the following command:

SuSEconfig --module kdm2

Keywords: REMOTE, XFREE86, X11, XDMCP

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