I'm no expert on such things, but as I understand it, enabling xdmcp on your machine tells gdm to allow remote hosts to log into your machine through xdmcp, not the other way around. I don't know if gdm will show a menu option to log into remote hosts without some manual menu tweaking, but you can do something like /usr/bin/X11/X -query <hostname> to connect to the remote host without gdm, or specify that in your gdm.conf if you always want to open a connection to a different host. One thing you could do, if you have your machine and your friend's machine which you often log into: set gdm up to have 2 X displays running: one on :0 which is a "normal" into your machine and one on :1 whose server is specified as /usr/bin/X11/X -query my.friends.machine like this: near the bottom of your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf you should see a [servers] section something like this: [servers] 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 # this second line starts up :1 on vt8 # 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 -deferglyphs 16 change it to something like this: [servers] 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 # this second line starts up :1 on vt8 connected to my.friends.machine # 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 -deferglyphs 16 -query my.friends.machine Then you'll have your own local gdm on vt7 and an xdmcp connection to your friend on vt8. Note that I don't endorse this kind of thing in any fashion, unless you're on a trusted private network. Use ssh instead. If you really do want to be able to log into another machine through xdmcp (because it is kinda neat), tunnel it through ssh. I don't think the performance hit is worth it, though; I find it much nicer to just run X locally and tunnel certain applications through ssh as necessary; I have buttons on my gnome panel to pop up a terminal or gkrellm from another host (so long as my agent is running and my key is loaded). Vineet * Joerg Johannes (liste_joerg@gmx.de) [010620 13:08]: > 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? > > -- > Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you > will hear the voice of Satan? > > That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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