Re: How to enable remote X-logins ?
Hmm, As I don't understand most of what you said, and I don't need this
remote x-login (would have been cool... no exporting displays from my
friend's machine ;-) etc.), I think I just leave things as they are. But
thank you anyway, maybe someday I will really need it , so I won't
delete your mail...
joerg
Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
> What's up,
>
> Joerg Johannes wrote:
> >
> > Hi List
> >
> > I'm using gdm as display manager. What I am missing is the option "Login
> > to remote host", as I have on Sun workstations at university. I looked
> > into the gdm docs, and I found out that I have to set
> > ..
> > [xdmcp]
> > Enable=1
> > ..
> >
> > I left the other values on default, and hoped to find the remote login
> > Button or menu on hte (restarted) gdm screen, but no. Still only login
> > to localhost possible.
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> Ok, I assume your using nis to log in and nfs to export home directories
> >from a server (or whatever) to the machine your logging in to. First
> make sure that you can log in as a user on the server. On the local
> machine:
>
> $su server.user
>
> now make sure that server.user's home directory is mounted:
>
> $mount server:/home/server.user /home/server.user
>
> Now you'll want to copy the contens of the file ".Xauthority" from a
> user on the machine your logging in to and append it to the end of
> "server:/home/server.user/.Xauthority" Don't delete what's already in
> there or you won't be able to get use X on the server (actually I
> usually do delete it because who runs X on a server?).
>
> Now exit Gnome (or whatever) and log in as "server.user".
>
> To survive a reboot you'll need to edit /etc/fstab so that
> server:/home/server.user is mounted on system boot and you'll need to
> make sure that nis gets started on boot as well.
>
> hth,
> Andy
>
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