Addendum: the other way of invoking a remote login is: X -ac -broadcast
-broadcast will find any XDMCP servers on your LAN. On Mon, February 18, 2008 9:31 am, Nick Rout wrote: > It is often quite distro dependent and I haven't used fedora since it was > redhat (if you know what I mean). > > However there are quite a few settings (which can be in different places > per distro). The first thing you have to do is set up X on A to accept > connections over the network. google or look at fedoras docos for > references to XDMCP which is the acronym for the technology involved. Once > you have it going, from B run: > > X -ac -query A > > if you already have an X session running on B you will need to add :1 to > the end of the command to tell it to open a second X session (the first > one is :0) so the command would be: > > X -ac -query A :1 > > On Sun, February 17, 2008 10:05 pm, John Mallett wrote: >> I have two computers A and B and would like to log into A from B using >> xdm >> but >> am unsure of how to do it. I am running fedora 8. Any thoughts >> >> > > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- Nick Rout
