Gutsy thin client autologin

[graham newland]

Hi,

Does anyone have any tips for getting autologin working with Gutsy
thin clients?

I recently set up a thin client environment for testing purposes. When
I'm not using autologin, everything works as expected. The client
boots up and provides a login screen, and the user is able to login
manually.

When I try using autologin by adding the LDM_USERNAME and LDM_PASSWORD
variables to lts.conf, the client boots up normally but where I'd
expect it to login with the credentials supplied in lts.conf, it just
sits there with a black screen and an 'X' cursor and goes no further.
Nothing appears in auth.log on the server.

My lts.conf (I'm using the one in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/) is simply:

[default]
   LTSP_VERSION=5.0.39
   SERVER=192.168.5.100

[00:01:02:03:04:05]
   LDM_USERNAME=user
   LDM_PASSWORD=mypassword

where 00:01:02:03:04:05 is the MAC address of the client. If I comment
out the two LDM_* lines and reboot the client, everything works as
expected and I can login manually.

I've had a quick search, but can't see what I'm doing wrong (although
I don't have a great deal of Linux experience, so may have overlooked
something obvious!)

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Graham.