Hi Jon, I am still a little new to this area of Linux, at the minute i am just looking in to pulling my current 2000 advanced server login screen off the server on to the Linux workstations. I am then hoping in the future to do the same thing with a Linux Server and have disk less workstations.I started to download the ISO`s for the LTSP today and reading the information on it.
Right now i am just having a look round on the net to see if i can find any documentation on this area. I am still trying to find where to begin with it all :) But thank you for your post, It is very much appreciated. On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:32, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > I have been using Windows 2000 Advanced server and i was wondering if there is any >kind of terminal services software on Linux that can project the current X windows >session over a network to a differnt computer. What i am looking to do is setup a >Linux file server and basically connect using user logins from accross the network to >the server so each user had its own area etc... > > > > If i could connect accross a network to the server and get it to the display the >login screen on the workstations it would be perfect. If anyone knows how to do this >or has any ideas i would love to hear from you. > > X does this natively, and has had this ability for about 20 years :) > > Anyway, If you are running gdm, you just have to make sure it's set to > allow remote requests. In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, in the [xdmcp] section, > set Enable=True and you should be good to go. On another machine, just do > > nohup X -query hostname :1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & > > and you will find yourself with a nice little login screen. You can > switch between that screen and your main windowing screen using alt-F# or > clt-alt-F# keys (Red Hat usually has X on F7, and your new one will > probably be on F8, but it may be somewhere else). > > The :1 is the display number. By default, the one you are looking at is > :0. Since :0 is already taken, you have to choose another one. The > -query tells X where to look to login to. On my machine, I had to wrap it > with nohup .... >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & or else it would screw up my > original display (this may be due to my funky graphcis card, though). > > Anyway, if you have any questions let me know. > > Also LTSP and K12LTSP have distributions set up specifically for this, > including remote-booting (i.e. - your clients don't even need a hard drive > - they can boot up straight over the network). > > As I said, UNIX has been doing this for something like 20 years, so it > works quite well. > > Jon > > > > > > Thanks for your time... > > > > > > Keystone7 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Keystone7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
