Re: XDMCP Howto?
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:44, Caleb Shay wrote:
> Here's one for the X-perts.
>
> I have 3 machines on a private network. 2 linux boxes using gdm and 1
> SGI using xdm/clogin. I would like to be able to log into any of the
> boxes from any one of the other boxes. This seemed like a perfect time
> for me to play with XDMCP. After all, isn't network transparency
> supposed to be one of the big selling points of X11? So, after much
> fruitless searching for info on XDMCP and the configuration of xdm and
> gdm, all I could come up with was that I needed to enable xdmcp in my
> gdm.conf files (done), enable broadcast in same (done) and also enable
> xdmcp broadcasts on all boxes (done). As far as I can tell from the man
> pages I should get (gdm)chooser popping up automagically on the all 3.
> Unfortunately, nothing like that happens. I just have my normal login
> screens. Anybody have any hints for me?
I set this up ages ago and vaguelly remember. Its all in the Thin-Client
HOWTO on linuxdoc.org.
As well as setting up XDMCP on your display managers (gdm/xdm) you need
to start an X server on a free VT with it set to look for the XDMCP
server.
Have a look at the startx script which calls the X programme. Doing it
by hand you may do something like
X :1 -broadcast
or specify it with something like...
X :1 vt09 -query xdcmphost.domain.com
This should start up X and greet you with the display manager screen
from the remote host.
X -h for more info
Kind Regards
Crispin Wellington
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