Remote XDMCP broken
I’ve found something else that isn’t right about my Ubuntu installation. I can’t do a remote login to the other machine on the LAN.
At the login window on my Inspiron 9400 there’s the little “Options…” button in the bottom left corner. Click that, say that you want to log into a remote machine, and it certainly offers a login to the desktop that’s in the office. When I try that, however, it fails miserably. The X screen disapppears for a few seconds, replaced by a text mode display of services starting/stopping. That in turn disappears only to be replaced by the local login window a few seconds later still. I don’t get a login prompt for the remote machine.
I have to admit that I haven’t even started to look into why this might be. I’ve tried twice and failed twice (with a laptop reboot in between) so it’s quite reproducible. I’ll do some digging and see what I can find.
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