Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Small Disk Xterminal Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970326224530.20364A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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I have about 5 Hewlett Packard 486 DX66 Computers with 80 meg Hard drives. I want to set them up as xterminals to run programs off of a larger FreeBSD Server. I tried looking in the archives and found some discussion on this topic. But I was unable to discover how this was resolved. I want only bare minimum files on the X terminal, and I want to configure the rc files to start up only the X server and go right into an authentication from the XDM Server on the larger FreeBSD Machine. I assume I will use NFS to set up the Xwindows applications that I want to run. I want the users at the X terminals to be logging in to the FreeBSD machine becuase I don't want to have several accounts for my users. Will this require NIS? Or can the XDM some how handle this? Is there any problems with what I have proposed, has any one done this? Let me know what problems I am likely to encounter and what basic steps that I will need to do to get started. P.S. Any one ever get Xwindows working with an HP Ultra Video Card? Thanks. Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor FreeBSD Book Project: http://vinyl.quickweb.com/~chrisc/book.html Disclaimer: Even Though it has My Name on it, Doesn't mean I said it.
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