I'd actually be curious about this too. Kev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Jenniss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: (clug-talk) wish to be an X man > 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? > > 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? > > 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. > > 4. Sharing fonts, I assume this is a font server? where do I configure X to deal with this? > > 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 > > 6. Lastly, autodetecting hardware... like your monitor, vid card, mouse, keyboard... Knoppix seems to do this well. > xf86cfg just... gets, tiresome. > > Peace, > Richard Jenniss > >
