<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello, I have the following problem: The D-Bus daemon  V. 1.4.1 compiled on SuSE 10.3 is running on SuSE 10.3 and listening on host=192.168.0.10,port=12345. The <auth>ANONYMOUS</auth> and <allow_anonymous/> statements are present in the .config file. The daemon runs in verbose mode. Now: <big>Remote</big> applications from the <big>SuSE 11.2 </big>seem to send an "AUTH ANONYMOUS xxxxx" command and can connect to the D-Bus. <big>Local applicatins (exactly the same as on SuSE 11.2) but complied on SuSE 10.3</big> do not send this command. Only "AUTH EXTERNAL xxxx" and AUTH DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 xxxxx" are sent, but for both the server says "Unsupported mechanism..." and then rejects the requests. So I can't connect to this D-Bus daemon locally. What even worse: The local (legacy) application that shall be started on SUSE 10.3 as the service also can't connect to the D-Bus. The critical statement is:  cout << "BEFORE CONNECTING TO STARTER BUS" << endl;  bus = dbus_g_bus_get( DBUS_BUS_STARTER, &error );  if (!bus)  {    cout << "Couldn't connect to starter bus. " << error->message << ". EXITING" << endl;    // This is an essential problem so...    exit(1);  } The "couts" are visible on the attached D-Bus daemon log verbose.txt. When the session daemon is used everything works perfectly, but the real goal is to start the REMOTE service. What shall be done that the above service could be started by the D-Bus daemon as described above. Thanks for your help, with best regards Bogdan </body> </html>