Bill,
Bill McCormick wrote:
I'm able to successfully connect to gdm Xserver on my RH Linux box but I see
this ...
$ XWin -query 192.168.212.1 -lesspointer -clipboard -xf86config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86config
Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Looks like -clipboard is having trouble connecting, which it almost
always does when using XDMCP. Are you running any other X Clients in
your startup script on Windows? Did you use startxdmcp.bat as a base?
It would be a good idea to use startxdmcp.bat as a base since it doesn't
start local X Clients.
Also, I'd rather not use the resources on the Linux Box yet still have this
functionality. So, is there a way I can accomplish this without actually
being in runmode 5 on the Linux box?
What resources? If you are referring to the overhead of running just
xdm, then yes, you can do this without running xdm. However, the
resources associated with your full remote session are always going to
be used, if you want a full remote session.
If what you want to do is just display some remote clients using the
local window manager (XWin -multiwindow), then you can do this with ssh
and X11 tunneling:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html#using-remote-apps-ssh
If you still want the full remote desktop (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.), then
you start XWin without -multiwindow, -rootless, and -query (e.g. XWin
-nodecoration -lesspointer) and without a local window manager (e.g.
twm, mwm, etc.). You launch an xterm (from your script) and either
configure it to run ssh, or you manually ssh to the remote machine.
Finally, you run the script on your remote machine that starts the
window manager of your choice. Some examples from debian would be
'startkde', 'startgnome', etc. This still uses all of the resouces
associated with running a full desktop login, but it does allow you to
not run xdm on your linux machine.
I don't have the exact procedure for automating the launch of ssh from
xterm, but I think an example was in an email sent the list today, so
you can search the mailing list archives for 'ssh' and 'xterm'.
Good luck,
Harold
Thanks,
Bill
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