RE: XDMCP?

["Paul Gillooly" <pgillooly es alpnet com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the info, one more question what is an
indirect chooser? My sole experience is the one
that you can use from a Sun machine that gives you
a list of hosts you can login to...

Thanks, Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Forrest [mailto:drf5n mug sys virginia edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:35 PM
> To: Paul Gillooly
> Cc: gdm sunsite auc dk; mkp mkp net
> Subject: RE: XDMCP?
>
>
> I'm not using gdm right now, but I think the difference is that it does
> support xdmcp, but does not provide an indirect chooser service --- you
> should be able to run a chooser program on your sum machine which looks
> around for xdmcp managers.  The indirect chooser service is for fairly
> dumb x terminals that rely on a third machine to collect a list of
> possible xdmcp managers.  I think the below means that gdm can control an
> x terminal, but cannot provide the chooser service directly.
>
> I havent seen much documentation, but what you may need to do on the sun
> machine is run a program called 'chooser'  that might look for xdmcp
> managers.  If the sun machine doesn't provide a choice list, it is
> managing the display istelf, and won't listen for your linux box's xdmcp.
>
>
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Paul Gillooly wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have included the two messages below referring to XDMCP since
> > they confuse me, in one it seems you are saying that it is
> > possible to do XDMCP (using the chooser, how else is it useful?)
> > in the other you say it is impossible. Now please forgive me if
> > this is really silly but can I setup GDM so that I can startup
> > Linux on my machine and use it to login (and start an X session)
> > on a Sun machine downstairs?
> >
> > Thanks, Paul.
> >
> >