Re: gdm remote display question

[oliver <fwang2 yahoo com>]

Thanks, Paul, it works. 

The only additional thing I need to do is make sure
the X server side /etc/hosts.allow gives the access
permission since gdm requires TCP wrapper for access
control. I guess there isn't a convinient way to add
menu on login dialog, yet.

oliver

--- Paul Cooper <pgc@maths.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> On the machine that is going to be the host edit the
> file
> 
> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> 
> in the [xdmcp] section make sure you have
> 
> Enable=1
> 
> then on the x-terminal machine use the command
> 
> /usr/bin/X11/X -query <hostname>
> 
> where <hostname> is the remote Xserver hostname. If
> I rememeber some
> version (can't remember which) of gdm go looking in
> /usr/etc for
> im_palette.pal so if it still doesn't work examine
> you xserver output and
> try
> 
> ln -s /etc/im_palette.pal /usr/etc
> 
> on the Xserver host machine.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Feiyi Wang
> wrote:
> > hi, 
> >  
> > I have two redhat 6.1 boxes, both are running gdm
> > 2.0beta2. Sometimes, I want one of them to be able
> to
> > login to the remote one through gdm login (add a
> host
> > menu, query by XDMCP, right?). I think gdm can do
> so,
> > but going through the manual, I can't figure out
> how
> > to do it? the usuage of gdmchooser/gdmlogin is too
> > terse for me to grasp, Can someone please help me?
> >  
> > best regard
> > 
> > oliver
> > 
> > 
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