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Font server support for remote CDE login

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sun4

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Apr 18, 2009
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From my local Linux workstation/Xserver I'm trying to do a remote CDE login to a good, old sun4m with Solaris 2.5.1/CDE 1.01/X11RC5 (1995 model), both machines on the same LAN.

Using XDMCP and this query command on the Linux console
X :1 -query sun_ip
brings up the CDE login screen, but without any CDE fonts. Neither characters for my user name I type on the keyboard is displayed.

Entering 'FontPath "tcp/sun_ip:7100"' in xorg.conf on the Linux side and trying to query also for remote font server on Solaris with this command
X :1 -query sun_ip -fp tcp/sun_ip:7100
doesn't bring up any CDE login screen at all.

My take is that the default 'fs' X11R5 font server on Solaris doesn't listen on this tcp port.

My question is how and where on Solaris can I verify and setup 'fs' to start to listen on this port and support remote font requests? (This looks to be something like "fs -port 7100" in a startup script somewhere)

(In X11R6 and later versions this is done with "#no-listen=tcp" in /etc/X11/fs/config for xfs)

 
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