Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On 12/21/06, *Ori Idan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I have two computers on internal network (both of them Debian > unstable) > I would like to login to a remote computer using gdm. > > > That is, you want to start an entirely new GNOME/KDE session using a > remote computer as the display. This is called XDMCP. For that to > work, the remote computer's X server should connect to your gdm > through the XDMCP port (UDP 177 -- make sure you have it open in your > firewall!). > Very misleading terminology.
The relevant X server is always the one running on the computer you're typing at (which most people refer to as *local* - it's physically closer to them). Hence the "remote computer's X server" is *always* irrelevant (unless you want to start programs for someone else to control - e.g. run xroach on his desktop, or spy on his keyboard typing). > Often, on the remote computer, you'd run GDM or KDM as well and it'll > have a GUI option for starting a remote session. Otherwise (e.g. if > you're on Cygwin), you can start a remote session manually: > > X --query your-gdm-machine To most people, this would only make sense if you reverse "local" and "remote"... When discussing X setup, we should try to explain things from the user's POV instead of the applications' ;-) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
