Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:54:06 -0700 (MST) From: "Antonio Arredondo" <aarredon@cs.nmsu.edu> To: "Nathan Vidican" <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server remote login Message-ID: <64145.71.210.233.122.1165852446.squirrel@intranet.cs.nmsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <457D635C.9060901@wmptl.com> 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> <457D635C.9060901@wmptl.com>
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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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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.
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