Re: GDM Hosts Browser.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

If you are just having a few linux boxes connected together in a network,
you probably don't want to worry about XDMCP.  It is mainly used for X
terminals (kind of like a green screen dumb terminal, except displays X
applications).  For such a home network, all the systems are probably
capable of running X applications locally, so you may as well do that.
You may want to look into setting up NFS so you can share the disks
between the machines though.

James.

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, dennis wrote:

> Hi all.
> I'm in the process of setting up a linux network at home and I'm going
> to use gnome on both systems.
> I will be using GDM on both also.
> I read  gdm. /usr/doc/gdm-1.0.0/gdm-manual.txt .....especially the
> section on XDMCP and UDP port 177 (as senn below)
> 
> 
> 4.6 Section: [xdmcp]
> Enable=1
>         Enables XDMCP support allowing remote displays/X terminals to
>         be managed by gdm.
> 
>         gdm listens for requests on UDP port 177. Access from remote
>         displays is controlled by the TCP Wrappers library. The
>         service name is `gdm'.
> 
>         You should add
> 
>                 gdm:    .my.domain
> 
>         or something similar to /etc/hosts.allow. See the
>         hosts_access(5) man page for details.
> 
>         Please note that XDMCP is not a particularly secure protocol
>         and that it is a good idea to block UDP port 177 on your
>         firewall unless you really need it.
> 
> 
> 
> I stilll dont understand how to connect from another system on the
> netwoek.
> 
> HELP
> 
> Cheers
> Dennis
> 
> 
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