-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 04:18 pm, Richard Jenniss wrote: > 1. Remote X sessions > I have two machines of course, one is a p3 800 of which will be my X > client, and a slower p120 of which I'd like to run an X server. > > I'm guessing I export a display? and I use xhost? > How is it that one can start an X client and keep it running, say if I had > a few old pentiums and I wish to have all my X stuff running on the p3... > is this difficult?
First I think you have it backwards, use the 800MHz system as the server and the 120MHz system as the client, other wise you will not be happy with your setup. I recommend XTerminals. I made an easy to follow page of instructions to setup X terminals. http://llug.linux.ab.ca/Projects/ApplicationTerminals/MdkTerminalServer.html These are for Mandrake systems but should work for most Linux installs. > 2. Remote application on multiple X clients. > Say, for arguments sake I had several fast machines. I had one that was > playing music, another with email or a dedicated fast VMware machine. how > would I get all these different X applications on different machines to > show up on one display? I don't know about how to share a sound system via XTerminals but I am sure it could be done. In this case you only need one fast computer and the rest can be junkers you could get for free. > 3. Is it possible to run an X client on a LAN and have multiple X servers > connect to it without telnet or ssh? am I to understand that you would use > telnet or ssh in an WAN type setting? or in the case of SSH or SSL telnet > to secure an unsecure network medium. Possible, yes but I don't think you would get good results. And it could be confusing for your users. Again I recommend XTerminals. > 4. Sharing fonts, I assume this is a font server? where do I configure X to > deal with this? Your fonts and font server are on the local system when using XTerminals. You could make the font paths a mount point that is NFS shared by the server then adding fonts would be much easier, just add them to the server. > 5. Security purposes, on an NIC that is connected to the internet or some > insecure WAN would it be appropriate to have in your iptable... or > something more strict? I'm still learning IP tables. iptables -A INPUT -s > 6000 -i eth0 -j DROP Use a firewall appliance like www.SmoothWall.org. The rules for security in this section change with every new kernel. 2.0 = ipfwadm, 2.2 = ipchains, 2.4 = iptables. It keeps getting better but I find it is not worth my time to keep on top of it. But if you must know then the How-To's great to learn just don't make your network security yourself, use a firewall like SmoothWall and let someone else worry about keep it up to date and correct. > 6. Lastly, autodetecting hardware... like your monitor, vid card, mouse, > keyboard... Knoppix seems to do this well. xf86cfg just... gets, tiresome. If you don't like doing it the hard way, and I don't blame you, I recommend Mandrake. I recommend it for people that are new to Linux or like myself have been using Linux for year and just don't have the time to bother with the guts of how it works. I am happy to know that if I every want to open it up and see how it works I can because it is open source. These are all excellent questions. I hope I was of some help. - -- Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.SiliconTao.com Linux, become enlightened. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2dqiAACgkQCbnxcmEBt43d/wCfe0cwyAdd4XJWaVB1Lt1Edslk V2sAn0fZfkbuS5hC9eAm2yFsuzKjWdKQ =jSNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
