Donald Spoon wrote:
>
> J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > Don,
> >
> > Thank you so much, this is exactly what I looked for. I am stuck in the
> > same position as you are, trying to automate the procedure. A temporary
> > hack for now is to add the line you mentionned (X :1 vt8 etc etc) into
> > my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. This is ugly, but hey.. it works :)
> >
>
> Hmm... have to give that a try. Thanks! I could get GDM to start in
> either "mode" individually, but not both. It seem like it "should", but
> if I had both server lines defined in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf the computer
> would go into a loop of some sort and eventually kick me out to the
> command line with neither one started.
>
> > I tried to solve it somehow, it didn't work (got a flickering screen for
> > all my endeavours).. Here's what I added to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf; I've
> > commented the lines since for now it doesn't work. helsinki is the
> > hostname on that computer. That reminds me... in your example, -indirect
> > legolas .... legolas was the local host, right ?
> >
> No, not usually. Let me explain that a bit... Here are the computer
> names and their functions on my LAN:
> legolas ---> gateway, IPMasq,
> bilbo ---> time server, mail server, workstation (old DEC Alpha)
> gandalf ---> main workstation, LAN print-server (my machine)
> gimli ---> secondary workstation (son's machine)
> elrond ---> secondary workstation (wife's machine)
>
> All machines are using gdm and are setup to honor "indirect" xdmcp
> request as per the [xdmcp] section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. I can actually
> use any one of them, including the "localhost" in the "-indirect
> [hostname]" part of the line and get it to work.
>
> > #[server-Chooser]
> > #name=Chooser
> > #command=/usr/bin/X11/X -indirect helsinki
> > #flexible=true
> >
> > [servers]
> > 0=Standard vt7
> > #1=Chooser vt8
> >
> I wonder if our "problem" isn't caused by looking at the local machine
> for a "chooser" when it is still trying to start X for vt7??. Maybe the
> "chooser" function isn't working at the time we are trying to start
> vt8. I wonder if setting the "-indirect..." line to an external machine
> that already has X running and offering "chooser" services would work??
>
> BTW, I found that understanding how it is done in XDM, then applying
> that knowledge to GDM was quite helpful to me. There are several
> different places in XDM that have to be modified to get xdmcp working,
> but you can do it all in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf when using GDM. The KDM
> setup is almost identical to the XDM setup... or used to be. I have not
> looked at KDM in quite a while. Here is a good HOWTO on setting up XDM
> in a college LAB setting that I found helpful:
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html
>
> The XDMCP HOWTO at the Linux Documentation Project was quite useful too,
> but you had to do some mental conversions to adapt it to Debian. The
> above link was mainly about XDMCP on Debian, although on an older
> version of X that had the files located in different places.
>
> Guess I have some thinking and experimenting to do.... <grin>
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
Hmmm... this is the kind of info I've been waiting for. But one
question. On my SUn Ultra1, running Solaris 9, the login box comes up,
to login locally, and there is a menu option to flip to a chooser to
login to a remote machine. I can login to my Debian/x86 box fromt there,
or login locally to Solaris.
Is there a way to get this same option in gdm/xdm on a Debian/x86 box?
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