X server remote login

[Antonio Arredondo]

> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>>
> As another user pointed out; what you're looking for is xdm. xdm is
> xorg's remote login screen, for lack of a better description; it's what
> will allow you to directly login to X from other stations, rather than
> via shell/startx. You might want to take a look at alternatives too - I
> use kdm, which is KDE's implementation of xdm, allowing you a little
> easier and a little more control over the login screen/appearence via
> KDE''s graphical configuration setup, but functionally the same as xdm.
>
>
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> Nathan Vidican
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Not sure if this issue has been resolved, but I found that the 'Xstartup'
file is missing from the xorg install of xdm ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm ). I
found I needed this file to get xdm to properly login. If not, xdm will
not allow remote connection to connect.