Setting up a central X server ...

[Jonas Jochum]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>Can someone point me at docs on how I can do this?
>basically, I have a rackmount server here that has 4Gig of RAM and dual
>CPU ... I'd like to setup X on it such that my staff's workstations run
>their apps off of that machine, instead of their desktops ...
>I've found some docs on XDMCP, but they seem to revolve more around being
>able to set it up for Xceed and such, not for going from/to FreeBSD boxes
>...
>
Yeah, just run gdm, xdm or kdm on the server, and set it up to use 
xdmcp. On the client machines you
do X -broadcast, then you should be able to do what you want ;-)

>Now, the one thing I'm not sure whether would work or not is sound ... if
>the X stuff is on a remote server, then the programs are running over
>there, so is there a way of "connecting" back to the client computer for
>their sound?
>
You could use esd or another sound daemon for that.

Bye,
 Jonas