Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:55:40 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server remote login Message-ID: <457D635C.9060901@wmptl.com> In-Reply-To: <20061210094740.GA47520@lothlorien.nagual.nl> References: <1165691646.3362.4.camel@arwen> <6.0.0.22.2.20061209145320.024fed40@mail.computinginnovations.com> <1165698490.3362.15.camel@arwen> <457B556C.4000707@oss-solutions.com> <20061210094740.GA47520@lothlorien.nagual.nl>
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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. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com
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