I'm attempting to have xdm show a login screen on another system on my 
internal LAN.  After attempting the following from the remote host

Xquartz -query my.ip.address

I get the following error message in /var/log/xdm.log

xdm error (pid 853): Cannot convert Internet address 
remotehost.ip.address to host name
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling: Permission denied.

I have the following in /etc/hosts

remotehost.ip.address remotehost.my.domain remotehost

This should convert the ip Internet address to a host name.  Any 
suggestions on what else could be wrong here?


Ian Thomas

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