-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 04:18, you wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently working with X and I have a few quick questions I hope > someone could help me with. > > 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?
not at all.. you shoul really check out LTSP (linux terminal server project). it makes this kind of stuff very simple. http://www.ltsp.org/ at http://www.k12ltsp.org/ you can even download an entire (RH-based) distro that has it all set up... > 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? you could accomlish this a few ways... a common method is to use rsh to connect to the various systems and run the remote X programs. > 3. Is it possible to run an X client on a LAN and have multiple X servers > connect to it without telnet or ssh? sure... NFS mount the remote filesystem. > am I to understand that you would use > telnet or ssh in an WAN type setting? it would be no different than on a LAN, except you'd want to use encryption and you have to take into consideration that your pipe is probably smaller. > or in the case of SSH or SSL telnet > to secure an unsecure network medium. usually a good idea, yes... VPN may be better than SSH in that situation as well. > 4. Sharing fonts, I assume this is a font server? where do I configure X to > deal with this? same place you configure the X server =) you will either need all the fonts on each terminal, or else remotely mount the file system > 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 not sure exactly what you're asking here.. could be i haven't had any coffee yet, but could you expound a bit omre on this one? > 6. Lastly, autodetecting hardware... like your monitor, vid card, mouse, > keyboard... Knoppix seems to do this well. xf86cfg just... gets, tiresome. get used to it ;-) fancy shmancy stuff like autodetecting hardware and restartless reconfigs are coming in XFree5, but that's still a ways off ... until then, use something like LTSP which simplifies it IMMENSLEY for you. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9nbU21rcusafx20MRApXRAKCn5tcloKXJh5Yq+VWbDjFItezoeACgqJp6 lvnwxH5r8bb4IoXJtEc+obA= =3TDf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
