Hmm, As I don't understand most of what you said, and I don't need this remote x-login (would have been cool... no exporting displays from my friend's machine ;-) etc.), I think I just leave things as they are. But thank you anyway, maybe someday I will really need it , so I won't delete your mail...
joerg Andrew Dixon wrote: > > 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 > -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
