On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 at 14:29, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
> it's very great. especially when you couple it with inetd and xdm (or
> kdm).
How do you make xdm handle logins and pass them to the vncserver? Maybe
you could expound on your setup? I do believe a number of people on the
list would appreciate details on this.
BTW, for those of you interested, I'm typing this using Pine (still
haven't migrated to Mutt) that is being run via wterm that is running on
Xfce that is running ... REMOTELY!!! Whee!!! Hahaha.
I installed gdm, which uses both PAM and TCP Wrappers so it SUPPOSEDLY
only listens to my local network (will test from the Internet soon). The
basic setup was easy, using my existing Linux setup on Kalapati (my
laptop) I just ran "X -query gusi" (gusi is my server). Now I'm spending
time optimizing the defaults so that users can simply login and things
will be as I want them to be.
The setup only needs a bare installation of Linux on the client side, plus
the X server configured for that particular machine. I set up the X font
server to host the fonts for all the clients (so that I do not need to
install the xfonts packages anymore). Because X can be run using the local
workstation's root user, I do not need to work on LDAP authentication or
anything like that (although I should study it for the possible event of
my handling a system with more than 64k users, plus the fact that it's a
good "address book" as well and having the user base and system address
book in one is a great way to cut down on redundancy).
Performance is pretty good, considering I'm running on a 10Mbps link (most
of the other workstations are connected via a 100Mbps link). Life is
actually more responsive, but that's because I used to process things on a
Pentium MMX 400MHz with 128MB RAM, and now am doing these on a Pentium III
733MHz with 512MB RAM and four drives on RAID5 (which is still faster than
a single disk).
I do not want to install netscape because that crashes too often. I will
try mozilla and see how it goes. I am hoping it will prove to be usable.
Best of all I can now work on configuring GnuCash to save the company
P51,000 that it would have spent on getting a five-user value-pack of
Quickbooks. GnuCash now supports multiple simultaneous users with a
PostgreSQL backend. :)
> as for speed, it's pretty good having a 640x480 8bit desktop over a
> dialup line. best of all, the vnc client is very small and available
> on major OS'es. So at home, I could access one of my desktops, some of
> our and our client's servers.
Now THIS I have to try. Hahaha. :)
--> Jijo
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