It is not necessary to boot into RL-5, he can boot into RL-3 and start kdm/gdm manually. As you stated, he can prevent the startup of local X servers if he wishes. This has the benefit of eating up far less RAM on the host system. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gregor Maier |Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:57 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Where can I find XDMCP? | | |Yes, you must either start kdm, xdm org gdm (kdm and xdm both |use the xdm config files). But you can prevent local X-logins |if you comment out the line in the xdm configuration where the |X-Server is started. (somewhere in /etx/X11/xdm). And the you |must boot to RL 5 in order to get xdm started. | |Gregor | | |On 18-Sep-2001 Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: |> Jose M. Sanchez wrote: |> |>>If you bring up KDM, or GDM and your network card is properly |>>configured, XDMCP is enabled by default. |>> |> Is it really necessary to bring up KDM first? |Actually, my Linux |> box is configured to be a pure server. Users (except me) aren't |> supposed to login locally (well, they can, but very very |rarely). So, |> Linux starts up in pure text mode, and even the login screen |is also in |> text mode. |> |>> |>> |>>You'll have to modify your security settings (i.e. /etc/hosts.allow, |>>etc.) to permit other hosts to get a login screen... You could also |>>lower your machine/lan wide security settings in the control panels. |>> |>>That said, the chooser doesn't work in 8.0 afaik, so other linux |>>machines will have to directly poll the XDMCP host to get a |login. :( |>> |> |> |> | |---------------------------------- |E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: 18-Sep-2001 |Time: 12:54:18 |---------------------------------- | |
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