Re: graphical login to a different Linux machine
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:20:07 +0200, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> -- Santanu Chatterjee <santanu@softhome.net> wrote
> (on Friday, 11 April 2003, 06:18 PM +0500):
>> 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),
>> 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).
Yes, it was XDMCP that kde told me about.
Thanks for the detailed info. I will definitely try this out
tomorrow. I will also read the XDMCP-Howto, and gdm man pages.
Regards,
Santanu
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