Kelly,
Log in to the terminal, start up a terminal window and type echo
$DISPLAY. It will tell you the name you want to put between the [].
Kelly Solomon said:
> Thank you,
>>
>> That makes perfect sense, but let me go a little further and maybe you
>> can shed some more light on this.
>>
>> I am trying to get a workstation to login automatically. My DHCP.conf is
>> located on the dhcp server which is not the same as the terminal
>> server. So far, I have three PC's successfully booting from floppies
>> and I am able to login to the terminal server from each one. (These
>> PC's normally dual boot to Linux and/or Windows and have static
>> addresses.) So, to avoid confusion, I set up the dhcpd.conf file to
>> give those three workstations(PC's) their usual IP addresses.) Like the
>> following:
>>
>> #Kelly's terminal
>> host ws001 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:50:FC:84:DX:EX;
>> fixed-address 192.168.1.188;
>> filename "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-3";
>> }
>>
>> #Another terminal
>> host ws002{ etc.........
>>
>> (Everything works fine to this point.)
>>
>> Then, to allow my workstation to auto login, I added to the file
>> /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc the following lines:
>>
>> /[X-ws001:0-Core]
>> AutoLoginEnable=true
>> AutoLoginUser=kelly
>> ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors
>>
>> [X-ws188:0-Core]
>> AutoLoginEnable=true
>> AutoLoginUser=kelly
>> ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors
>>
>> [Xdmcp]
>> Enable=true
>> Willing=/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xwilling
>> Xaccess=/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xaccess/
>>
>> (I wasn't sure if my workstation was considered ws001 or ws188 since the
>> IP (188) was assigned in dhcpd.conf, so I added both. Can you tell me
>> how I can tell which it should be?)
>>
>> I know this file is being read because changes to the greet string are
>> reflected when I made them. Yet, when I reboot the workstation, I still
>> get a login screen. I've read all the hints I could find on the
>> subject, but I must be missing something.
>>
>> I really appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> Peter Billson wrote:
>> Kelly Solomon said:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm new to LTSP and running slackware 10.2 on the server and LTSP 5.1.
>>>
>>> My understanding so far is that every terminal logging into the server
>>> uses the initial IP address (from the DHCP server) to simply reach the
>>> Term Server. After that the IP address of the server is used for every
>>> workstation. Is this correct?
>>>
>>> If so, is there any way for the workstations to retain their own IP
>>> addresses after logging into the server?
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kelly
>>>
>>
>>
>> Kelly,
>> Not quite right.
>>
>> Each terminal has its own IP address and keeps it.
>>
>> What happens is that once you are in an X session all the processes are
>> actually running on the server, not the terminal, so any network traffic
>> generated by those processes (i.e. Net traffic from a Web browser) will
>> appear to be (and actually will be) coming from the server's IP.
>>
>>
>> Pete Billson
>>
>
>
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