On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 09:18:19PM +0000, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi all, Here's the story: > > We (A high school) just received a bunch of 486/66 Compaqs. The idea is > to turn them in to dumb X terminals (running StarOffice, and Netscape). > They have small hard drives (200mb), 16 md of RAM, 3 Comm Ethernet cards, > and vga (svga?) + Monitors. I was thinking that the base system could > sit on the drives, and maybe some of the X files (hehe, sorry). But when > xdm fires up X, I would like it to connect to our Linux server, (not the > local machine). Is this possible, can some give me a few pointers. > Thanks
very easy :) install the debian base system.... then install the xserver package for your video card. Setup XF86Config. On the "Server" edit the xdm config... in /etc/X11/xdm edit Xservers and comment out : :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X thats really it... then on the "Xterminals" invoke X with X -query NAME_OR_IP_OF_SERVER this will start the X server and givee you a alogin window for the "SERVER" -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "All authority is quite degrading." -- Oscar Wilde
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