On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 15:35, Arvind Narayanan wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:29:45AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 20:05, Arvind Narayanan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have a few old unused machines in our lab so I'm trying > > > to revive them as thin clients using X remote login (XDMCP). > > > I have read the XDMCP howto and configured the server > > > accordingly, but on starting X on the client side with the > > > -query option, all I get is a plain X screen rather than the > > > gdm login screen. Any idea how to debug this? Thanks > > > > > > Arvind > > Look up www.ltsp.org Excellent method for using older computers as well > > as making thin client labs / office. > > Thanks for the suggestion. However, ltsp is not suitable in this > case because the client machines have a disk and are already running > linux and X. I googled some more and got it working (but I forgot > what I did :-( ). The clients are running splendidly now. > > Arvind Hello Arvind >From GDM configuration menu enable remote X login.This actually sources the file gdm.conf under /etc/X11/gdm directory and changes the line> DisallowTCP=false from default parameter "true"(this should work).
I give below some tips which were successful on older Red Hat versions : Go to /etx/X11/xdm directory and edit the files as below: 1.Xaccess file : Uncomment the line no 60 starting with a "*" and which has a comment # Any host can login 2. xdm-config : Comment the last line> DisplayManager 3. Xservers : -----Same as above---->:0 Best of luck Murali ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
