Re: graphical login to a different Linux machine
-- Santanu Chatterjee <santanu@softhome.net> wrote
(on Friday, 11 April 2003, 06:18 PM +0500):
> Hello all,
>
> Today, I saw an option in win2k in the login screen, where
> one can give the name of a client machine (in the same
> network, probably), and login as an user on that machine.
>
> This kind of a thing probably also exists under kdm (and xdm, etc),
> since sometime KDE said something about this to me. But now I am
> not being able to find that piece of info.
>
> Could you please point to the right direction?
I'm not sure about kdm, but I use gdm to do this very thing from my
laptop. Basically, you have *dm running on the serving machine, and you
have it configured to be an XDMCP server (gdmconfig has a dialog for
setting this up; run it as root while in X on the serving machine).
On the machine that you wish to connect with, you start X with:
$ X -query hostname
where hostname is the name of the machine running *dm. It then starts X
and connects to that machine; when you logon, you're running entirely on
that machine. It's a great tool for being able to run a full-fledged X
environment on light hardware (since the applications are being served
from, hopefully, a more powerful machine).
For more information on this, you might want to go to
http://www.tldp.org and look up the XDMCP HOWTO and the X-Terminal
HOWTO.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net
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