On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:34, bascule wrote: > is it possible to run kdm on two machines and have a local X console on one > AND login remotely from the other machine and run X? Yes, this took me a day to figure out! I have an even trickier setup where it brings up a chooser menu (on either machine) and you can login to either local _or_ the remote but if I understand you correctly, you only want a basic thin-client setup via X:
> i can get one or the other but cannot for the life of me get both to work > 1. Ok, for your server (I mean the network server) machine: For $KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (where KDEDIR=/usr or /opt/kde3): [Xdmcp] Enable=true 2. Make sure your firewall isn't blocking anything (turn it off for testing purposes). 3. In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess: localhost mythinclient.domain #any host can get a login window # # To hardwire a specific terminal to a specific host, you can # leave the terminal sending indirect queries to this host, and # use an entry of the form: # #terminal-a host-a # # The nicest way to run the chooser is to just ask it to broadcast # requests to the network - that way new hosts show up automatically. # Sometimes, however, the chooser can't figure out how to broadcast, # so this may not work in all environments. # localhost CHOOSER BROADCAST mythinclient.domain CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser Where mythinclient.domain is your thin-client. 4. Just in case, comment out DisplayManager.requestPort from /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config like this: ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 5. For your thinclient, type X -query <myserver.domain> and you should get a login window from your remote server... If you like chooser menus, type X -indirect <myserver.domain>....if this works nicely, put it in the thinclient's /etc/inittab (remember to snipe the prefdm/kdm line in /etc/inittab or else the thinclient will try to spawn and manage its own local x sessions) Note that this does not use the remote fontserver....to do that you need to change FontPath in /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] but this really doesn't matter in most cases. Also, you may need to send kdm -HUP or something (even reboot?) for it to realise the new settings. Have fun debugging the config!
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