What's up,
Joerg Johannes wrote:
>
> Hi List
>
> I'm using gdm as display manager. What I am missing is the option "Login
> to remote host", as I have on Sun workstations at university. I looked
> into the gdm docs, and I found out that I have to set
> ..
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=1
> ..
>
> I left the other values on default, and hoped to find the remote login
> Button or menu on hte (restarted) gdm screen, but no. Still only login
> to localhost possible.
>
> Any idea?
Ok, I assume your using nis to log in and nfs to export home directories
from a server (or whatever) to the machine your logging in to. First
make sure that you can log in as a user on the server. On the local
machine:
$su server.user
now make sure that server.user's home directory is mounted:
$mount server:/home/server.user /home/server.user
Now you'll want to copy the contens of the file ".Xauthority" from a
user on the machine your logging in to and append it to the end of
"server:/home/server.user/.Xauthority" Don't delete what's already in
there or you won't be able to get use X on the server (actually I
usually do delete it because who runs X on a server?).
Now exit Gnome (or whatever) and log in as "server.user".
To survive a reboot you'll need to edit /etc/fstab so that
server:/home/server.user is mounted on system boot and you'll need to
make sure that nis gets started on boot as well.
hth,
Andy
