Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 15:13 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > >>Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>>On my network there are two machines: baby and blossom. baby has a 900 >>>megahertz processor with 256MB RAM. blossom has a 200 megahertz >>>processor with 128 RAM. Right now baby has Gentoo 2005.0 and blossom is >>>running Red Hat 9. I would like to set up something where my wife can >>>log in on blossom (it's my wife's computer) and it connects blossom to >>>baby (via the network) I want blossom to act as a dumb terminal, with >>>all requests made on blossom going to baby. My wife prefers GNOME, but >>>it runs so slow on blossom (that's why she wanted RH9) I'm pretty sure >>>there's a way to do this, but I don't know how to start. I know I could >>>use Google, but I don't know how to phrase my query. I know that all >>>this could be accomplished with ssh, but is there a simpler way? >>> >> >>You want to use blossom as a thin client? Three choices that come to mind >>are xdmcp, nx, and vnc. If you want you can use a specialized thin client >>distro such as thinstation or ltsp. >> > > Can you point me to any tutorials/HowTo's about doing this? >
To setup xdmcp on the server you can follow the Displaymanager instructions [1] from the gentoo ltsp howto. On the client you start the Xserver with the -query option (see the Xserver manpage). See the xdmcp howto [2] for further information. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml#doc_chap3_sect8 [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
