Thanks for the reply. Using the info you provided, I started to do some reading and info gathering on ssh, etc. Holy mackerel! That's a lot of stuff especially for a relative newbie like me. I must say, it looks quite daunting, at least at this stage of my Linux education. So I'll just plug along on a spare machine and see if I can't figure this out.
Btw, would you know if all that encrytion / decryption going on would cause my Win machines to take a performance hit? Thanks! On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 10:15, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > My question is this: when using this method (XWin), is there a way to > > bypass the Gnome login and get right to the Gnome desktop i.e. passing > > the Windows authentication info on to the Linux machine? Thanks! > > No. Not via xdmcp. > > But you can use ssh to build an other session managment. > - Create RSA/DSA keys for ssh. This will allow you to connect to the linux > host without providing a password (but the private RSA key) > - start X with > export WINDOWMANAGER=gnome > xinit /usr/bin/ssh -X remotehost .xsession -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin :0 > > This starts the Xserver adn connects via ssh to the remote host and starts a > X session with the local server as output device. > > Maybe you have to give some extra options to .xsession or use another startup > file like .xinitrc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc or even better > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome.
