RE: XDMCP?

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

Hi,

Thanks very much for all your help, I think I should
be able to manage it now....

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkp socsci auc dk [mailto:mkp socsci auc dk]On Behalf Of Martin K.
> Petersen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:24 PM
> To: Paul Gillooly
> Cc: gdm sunsite auc dk
> Subject: Re: XDMCP?
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Gillooly <pgillooly es alpnet com> writes:
> 
> Paul> in one it seems you are saying that it is possible to do XDMCP
> Paul> (using the chooser, how else is it useful?) 
> 
> XDMCP is a well-defined protocol for managing remote displays.
> Choosing is an xdm hack for broken X-terminals.
> 
> 
> Paul> Now please forgive me if this is really silly but can I setup
> Paul> GDM so that I can startup Linux on my machine and use it to
> Paul> login (and start an X session) on a Sun machine downstairs?
> 
> If you just want to use the Linux box as X-terminal, I'd recommend
> putting
> 
>         X -query <hostname of Sun>
> 
> in one of your rc files.
> 
> 
> You can get access to the Sun's chooser by doing
> 
>         X -indirect <hostname of Sun>
> 
> (This is what GDM doesn't support -- yet).
> 
> -- 
> Martin K. Petersen	Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
> http://mkp.net/		XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME, SunSITE Denmark
> 
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