Hi everyone,
In my search for information on setting up X terminals and a primarily
server-based setup I stumbled upon this article in the current issue of
the Linux Gazette: <http://www.linuxgazette.org/issue68/swieskowski.html>
It's pretty good, especially since the guy uses Debian (hehehe).
Seriously, though, it's interesting because it is almost diskless (if I
could burn a proper EEPROM then it WILL be diskless).
I wonder, though, for those who have "been there, done that" and have the
time to read the article and help me out: if everything is installed on
the server, with the client root filesystem in a subdirectory hosted via
NFS, how are a variety of hardware handled? I presume this NFS-hosted
share contains just one XF86Config, which would have the settings for what
hardware to use. Hmm, tricky tricky if you don't have the same hardware on
all workstations.
This article helped me out a little, bit, though. With all my whining and
griping it looks like all I need is to run "X -query servername". Hahaha.
I will probably set up very minimal Debian configurations on some
computers here (enough perhaps to allow root or some special user to burn
CD-Rs using the local computer), and will install the packages required on
the server to allow it to be whatever you call that machine where apps are
run from. The "X server" will reside on the client workstations, but will
connect (query) to the central server. If I run this from init I shouldn't
need any logins. Yeah!
Now, I wonder if xdm can be configured so that it can listen to a
particular set of interfaces only. Hmm ... anyone? :)
Happy and excited ...
--> Jijo
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