[Unxmaal]

Anyone have a link or gist of the proper method to connect to IRIX 6.5.30 via XDMCP from XQuartz on a Mac?

Or at the least,  some other method for remotely viewing the whole IRIX desktop?

I've found a lot of old, fragmented advice, but nothing that is complete and nothing that has yet worked.

[Unxmaal]

I was able to get a remote desktop working with vnc.

I installed tightvnc from nekodeps.

I modified /var/X11/xdm/Xservers to add an additional server for VNC:
:4 secure /usr/nekoware/bin/Xvnc :4 -depth 24 -geometry 1280x720

xhost +

Stop and start xdm:
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
/etc/init.d/xdm start

Set the vnc password
vncpasswd

Run vncserver on :4 (as root)
vncserver :4

Tail the log:
tail -f ~/.vnc/blue\:1.log

On my Mac, I used Chicken of the VNC to connect to my O2's IP on display 4.

[gijoe77]

thanks for the info

[necron2600]

On a mac (tested on 10.6.8 with Xquartz 2.3.6 though...) 

Xnest -kb -ac -query 192.168.1.222 :1 -geometry 1200x700

Where 192.168.1.222 is your IRIX system (assuming it is setup to respond to XDMCP)

[eAkGBG]

Ok I tried following this guide getting nowhere.
On my Mac I press the cmd+k type in the vncserver. all it say is "Connecting..."
on my windows I use the tightvnc client it opens the login screen for octane computer I see the icons start loading and then it disconnects immediately.

I don't get any log file in /.vnc/computername:1 (I set it to 1 instead of 4 trying different things.)
if I start normal vnc server everything works but I don't get desktop because no clue what to enter in the startup script.

from /usr/adm/SYSLOG. (changed it over to :0 removing the default one (Because I don't have monitor for the computer anyway))

Oct 22 21:39:25 3B:octane xdm[1127]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
Oct 22 21:45:03 3B:octane xdm[1127]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1

[eAkGBG]

ok I tried something

Xephyr -query 192.168.1.4 -screen 1280x1024 -br -reset -terminate :2

It just worked connected me to xdm letting me login and use the system. So now all I need is to remove vnc then.

[eAkGBG]

these are the lines in /etc/ssh/ssh_config
that are needed to be uncommented or added to allow ssh to connect with old version I had installed on the sgi machine.
Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc
MACs hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com

[GeekLucanis]

I tried this guide, and i got to the point of running vncserver, and IRIX errors out saying couldnt find Xvnc on your PATH, yet Xvnc is in bin.