On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 16:20 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > 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
It seems to be working. I changed blossom's default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 5 (X11) to 3 (full multiuser text-only) and added "X -query baby" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and restarted. I see baby's login screen on blossom's monitor. I logged in and opened mozilla. baby's hard drive started clicking so I could tell that all the work was being done on baby, but when I went to a website that had music it played through baby's speakers. blossom has her own sound card and speakers. Is there any way I could get blossom to use her own speakers? I noticed a flag for ltsp called audiofile that was not selected. Would adding audiofile to my USE settings do the trick? I can't seem to remember the file that has the descriptions of different USE settings... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
