On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:44, Caleb Shay wrote: > Here's one for the X-perts. > > I have 3 machines on a private network. 2 linux boxes using gdm and 1 > SGI using xdm/clogin. I would like to be able to log into any of the > boxes from any one of the other boxes. This seemed like a perfect time > for me to play with XDMCP. After all, isn't network transparency > supposed to be one of the big selling points of X11? So, after much > fruitless searching for info on XDMCP and the configuration of xdm and > gdm, all I could come up with was that I needed to enable xdmcp in my > gdm.conf files (done), enable broadcast in same (done) and also enable > xdmcp broadcasts on all boxes (done). As far as I can tell from the man > pages I should get (gdm)chooser popping up automagically on the all 3. > Unfortunately, nothing like that happens. I just have my normal login > screens. Anybody have any hints for me?
I set this up ages ago and vaguelly remember. Its all in the Thin-Client HOWTO on linuxdoc.org. As well as setting up XDMCP on your display managers (gdm/xdm) you need to start an X server on a free VT with it set to look for the XDMCP server. Have a look at the startx script which calls the X programme. Doing it by hand you may do something like X :1 -broadcast or specify it with something like... X :1 vt09 -query xdcmphost.domain.com This should start up X and greet you with the display manager screen from the remote host. X -h for more info Kind Regards Crispin Wellington
