On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:21, Visser, Martin (Sydney) wrote: > What is the current consensus? Not exactly your point, but I have been looking to do this to provide decent email for my wife's machine. It is an older laptop and takes quite a while to boot and start Evolution. My new machine has a lot more grunt than I need. Seems an ideal solution to step back in time with a "mainframe" and an X-teminal.
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Foskey [mailto:foskey@;optushome.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 7:59 AM > To: slug > Subject: Re: [SLUG] dishing up star office > > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 10:51, mick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering if it where possible to have a central server for star > > > office > > and have it start up at boot with the server and then be accesible to > network > > uses. > > > > I have Mandrake 9.0 on the server and another machine and redhat 7.3 > > on a > > third. The server does the dhcp thing for internet sharing. > > You can run gdm with xdcmp enabled gdm-config. Then you can run the > whole thing off the second box by > > X -query xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Ip address or name in hosts) > > or > > X -broadcast > > I do this with some crappy computers and one decent server. > > KenF > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
