X server remote login

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:47:40AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 09 Dec Tony Shadwick wrote:
> > On the xserver, if you want it to happen automatically, you would put
> > startx in your .login file.  So if you wanted that flag passed, you
> > would place startx -listen_tcp in your .login file.
> > 
> > On the client side, you're running an x-client, I presume that gets
> > started from /etc/rc.conf.  There's probably something like
> > xorg_enable="YES", and xorg_flags="blah", and you would put it in your
> > xorg_flags statement.
> 
> Xserver/Xclient side is still a bit confusing to me.

It usually is a bit confusing since the Xserver/Xclient terminology is
almost backwards from how server/client is usually used.

An Xserver is the part that has a display and a keyboard.
An Xclient is a program that connects to the Xserver to display pictures.


> What happens is, when I logon to a solaris machine I get a login screen
> on which I also can logon to remote machines graphicaly. I can even chose
> from a list there, because these remote machines broadcast themselves?
> All solaris machines are seen; my FreeBSD machines are not. The latter I
> want changed, so I can chose to logon to a FreeBSD (remote) machine from
> my solaris desktop machine. Hope this will clear things up a bit.

It is quite clear what you want (except possibly to those people who have
never seen such a setup before and don't even know it is possible).

I have never set up such a system myself, but I think all the information
you need can be found in the xdm(1) manpage.  (The config files for xdm can
be found under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/)



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