On Tue, February 19, 2008 9:54 pm, John Mallett wrote: > Thanks I will try that. I have not had any luck yet. I think that my > server is > set up ok. Should lsof -in run from the server should show open ports for > X >
or try netstat -tan X should be on port 6000. > > On Monday 18 February 2008 09:42:32 am Nick Rout wrote: >> 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
