Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
arist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 9:02 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Activate XDM and VNC Berry, We have had the section "Configure the VNC server" in "The Virtualization Cookbook" for quite a while. Did you compare wha

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
not deal with the X window system, nor XDM. Hope this helps. "Mike MacIsaac" From: "van Sleeuwen, Berry" To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu, Date: 11/11/2013 02:38 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Activate XDM and VNC Sent by: Linux on 390 Port Mark, Good idea for the STARTS_XSERVER,

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
Mark, Good idea for the STARTS_XSERVER, though since it is a Proof of Concept we are not all that concerned with the system logs. Yes, I did try to setup through Yast Remote administration. And No, it didn't help. Regards, Berry. You'll also want to change DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="yes"

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/11/2013 at 08:19 AM, "Davis, Larry (National VM Capability)" wrote: > I believe you need X Windows at a minimum installed and Gnome for a desktop GNOME is certainly _not_ needed, although the users may _want_ it. (Or KDE, or some other desktop.) But that's personal preference. Remo

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/11/2013 at 10:32 AM, "van Sleeuwen, Berry" >>> wrote: > I have found the problem. > > /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager must have DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" and > DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes". The latter was not available. > > In /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager the correct WM must be speci

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
al Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:51 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Activate XDM and VNC You do NOT need a formal graphical logon for to use VNC. By coincidence, Sir Santa railed agai

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
e xdm service. I think the problem is the "once the needed pieces are in place"... Regards, Berry. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:51 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: A

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
luck in starting xdm. Regards, Berry. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Davis, Larry (National VM Capability) Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:20 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Activate XDM and VNC I believe you n

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread Richard Troth
You do NOT need a formal graphical logon for to use VNC. By coincidence, Sir Santa railed against passwords in his blog last week, and graphical signon typically means yet more passwords. Counter productive. Larry is right that you'll need core X windows support, but that should have been drawn

Re: Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread Davis, Larry (National VM Capability)
Subject: Activate XDM and VNC Hi All, We generally install our guests with only the most required packages. Since we never run X we obviously don't install that. We have installed our guests with an ssh based install so no VNC or otherwise graphical interface is used either. Our customer now w

Activate XDM and VNC

2013-11-11 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
Hi All, We generally install our guests with only the most required packages. Since we never run X we obviously don't install that. We have installed our guests with an ssh based install so no VNC or otherwise graphical interface is used either. Our customer now want's a graphical interface in