Fwd: how to - XDMCP/LightDM - remote only

2021-04-06 Thread Arioch The
There were 4 questions and environment descriiption in the mail i sent yesterday, but robot ate them and moderators can not help recovering them Hope they still would help later, but they did not yet. Okay, main question was, how can i setup the box so that LightDM/XDMCP was available on TCP

gmd3 fails to open X sessions on the console and on X servers using xdmcp (stretch 9.1)

2017-08-25 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, A few months ago I met no difficulties to configure our debian Wheezy server to manage X sessions with gdm3, on the console and on a set of X servers (Windows PC with Cygwin/X) using xdmcp. I was unable to retrieve this functionality after a dist-upgrade to Jessie (cf. https

Re: how to add a remote login to XDMCP Chooser in the login window

2017-05-06 Thread Fungi4All
From: abelahc...@gmail.com >I want to log in a remote server using xdmcp from my local machine, >unfortunately there is no chooser in my local login (I use >lightdm). >How to add a remote connexion to the list in local login window? Have you tried any of these packages? xdm xrdp And

how to add a remote login to XDMCP Chooser in the login window

2017-05-05 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, I want to log in a remote server using xdmcp from my local machine, unfortunately there is no chooser in my local login (I use lightdm). How to add a remote connexion to the list in local login window? I remember 8 or 9 years ago, in the login window (may be with xdm) there was a remote

Do not work XDMCP GDM3

2017-04-16 Thread Konstantin
Dear Maintainer, I'm setting up a server for multi-user use. For this I use XDMCP, GDM3, xinetd, TightVNC I changed the settings of /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to: [daemon] [security] DisallowTCP=false [xdmcp] Enable=true MaxPending=4 MaxSessions=16 MaxWait=30 MaxWaitIndirect=30 PingIntervalSe

Re: With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-14 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, At the end of my email (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg00437.html) I wrote : "It would be nice if someone could answer that it works on his system : Jessie, gdm3 with xdmcp enabled and Windows PC emulating a X11 server with xlaunch (through Cygwin or another

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-12 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
used during 2 years Gnome and gdm3 on a server with Debian Wheezy to let users open sessions from their Windows PC via Cygwin and xlaunch (xdmcp). It worked well till the upgrade to Jessie 8.5, for these Windows PC, as for the system console. The upgrade to Jessie 8.6 didn't solve the probl

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed

2016-10-11 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, We used during 2 years Gnome and gdm3 on a server with Debian Wheezy to let users open sessions from their Windows PC via Cygwin and xlaunch (xdmcp). It worked well till the upgrade to Jessie 8.5, for these Windows PC, as for the system console. The upgrade to Jessie 8.6 didn't

Re: 40 xrdp makes VM crawl (was thin client xdmcp setup)

2015-08-27 Thread Stuart Longland
ff) Students >>> connect with a thin client that connects to the linux VM. The thin >>> clients have the usual options - shell (ssh) - windows (rdp) - >>> XDMCP >> >> Well, you've got two options there, one is to use XDMCP, the other is >> to

40 xrdp makes VM crawl (was thin client xdmcp setup)

2015-08-25 Thread Rusi Mody
connects to the linux VM. The thin > > clients have the usual options - shell (ssh) - windows (rdp) - > > XDMCP > > Well, you've got two options there, one is to use XDMCP, the other is > to install xrdp on the server and use that. I realise you're looking > for XD

Re: thin client xdmcp setup

2015-08-25 Thread Stuart Longland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 25/08/15 12:28, Rusi Mody wrote: > I am teaching python (and some other related stuff) Students > connect with a thin client that connects to the linux VM. The thin > clients have the usual options - shell (ssh) - windows (rdp) - >

thin client xdmcp setup

2015-08-24 Thread Rusi Mody
I am teaching python (and some other related stuff) Students connect with a thin client that connects to the linux VM. The thin clients have the usual options - shell (ssh) - windows (rdp) - XDMCP I'm not able to find very good tutorials/help on how to do this XDMCP stuff Any pointers?

Re: how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:01:02 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local > network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? (...) I don't know if that's still an option because gdm3 is an ongoing work and there have bee

Re: how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote: > > How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local > network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? > > On my "squeeze" machines running gdm, at the login screen there is a > drop-down called "Ac

how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? On my "squeeze" machines running gdm, at the login screen there is a drop-down called "Actions" that has one option called "Remote login via xd

Re: XDMCP and GDM3

2011-12-01 Thread Martin Feuersänger
Hi Rob, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Martin Feuersänger wrote: >> I know which files control the KDM behavior in regard to XDMCP (kdmrc >> and Xaccess, both in /etc/kde4/kdm/). >> But for GDM3 I have no idea where this is done. It just worke

Re: XDMCP and GDM3

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Martin Feuersänger wrote: > Hi list, > > a while ago we played a bit with XDMCP at the local LUG gathering here in > Frankfurt, Germany. > > One machine was running KDE 4.6.5 (sid) and the other Gnome 3 (squeeze). > > We managed

XDMCP and GDM3

2011-11-28 Thread Martin Feuersänger
Hi list, a while ago we played a bit with XDMCP at the local LUG gathering here in Frankfurt, Germany. One machine was running KDE 4.6.5 (sid) and the other Gnome 3 (squeeze). We managed to get a Chooser on each machine from the respective other machine by issuing X :1 -broadcast -indirect

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 13:51, Rob Owens wrote: > Maybe you should be using LTSP.  It will pxe boot pretty much anything, > and then do a remote GUI session to your server -- sound included. I don't want PXE, but rather two sessions (one local one remote), but i'll look into it, thanks. -- Mars

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:39:12PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:38, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> Now it's pulseaudio, seems simple but i'm missing something (it's > >> listening!). > > > > ..for XDMCP connections? >

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:38, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> Now it's pulseaudio, seems simple but i'm missing something (it's >> listening!). > > ..for XDMCP connections? Well yeah, XDMCP doesn't carry sound. My progress so far has been losing sound altogethe

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
-config once testing with Xming > was done and forgot about it. After uncommenting it again the local > gdm chooser found the remote machine and i was greeted by the remote > XDM. > > Now it's pulseaudio, seems simple but i'm missing something (it's > listening!).

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 19:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..ok, then it's back to my hint to find out if X is listening > at all, to anything but localhost. I must've commented out the remote xdm-config once testing with Xming was done and forgot about it. After uncommenting it again the local gdm choo

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:56:13 +, Nuno wrote in message : > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 03:14, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..I lost you here, do you have your XDMCP connection working now??? > > No, manpages and comments in .conf files. ..ok, then it's back to my hint to find o

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 03:14, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I lost you here, do you have your XDMCP connection working now??? No, manpages and comments in .conf files. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:50:13 +, Nuno wrote in message : > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 00:30, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..try ' ps axu |grep nolisten '. ;o) > > XDMCP works well with UDP and there's no reason to use TCP, SSH can > tunnel UDP. The only nolisten&#

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 00:30, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..try ' ps axu |grep nolisten '. ;o) XDMCP works well with UDP and there's no reason to use TCP, SSH can tunnel UDP. The only nolisten's i use are for TCP. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: XDMCP mess

2010-11-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 14:24:57 +, Nuno wrote in message : > Greetings, > > I've been trying to set up an XDMCP connection for a few days in my > LAN, to no avail. My current setup is: > - one desktop running two xservers, one managed by slim, the other by > xdm. I was

XDMCP mess

2010-11-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I've been trying to set up an XDMCP connection for a few days in my LAN, to no avail. My current setup is: - one desktop running two xservers, one managed by slim, the other by xdm. I was able to connect to this xdm from one of the winVMs using Xming. - one laptop running one xs

Re: configure xdmcp

2010-10-31 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:28:57PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to make a Debian server with thin clients, > I've enabled in the login window , xdmcp, but my server is not seen by my > thin clients. > > is there a particular configuration in gn

configure xdmcp

2010-10-31 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hello, I wanted to make a Debian server with thin clients, I've enabled in the login window , xdmcp, but my server is not seen by my thin clients. is there a particular configuration in gnome or may be in debian? On another machine debian squeeze ( uname gives) uname -a Linux belaHome 2

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Per Lundberg
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:16:06 +0300, Per Lundberg wrote: >> p...@terah:/etc/sysctl.d$ sudo netstat -l -n -p | grep 177 >> udp6       0      0 :::177                  :::* >>          1632/xdm >> > That's fine, bind() on in6addr_any lets

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Per Lundberg
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: Hi Julien, > I'm fairly sure xdmcp over ipv4 works just fine with both xdm and gdm in > squeeze, because I tested them (and made them work with the bindv6only=1 > setting) a month or two ago. OK, that's interesting... J

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:16:06 +0300, Per Lundberg wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Hi Julien, > > > I'm fairly sure xdmcp over ipv4 works just fine with both xdm and gdm in > > squeeze, because I tested them (and made th

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 22:32:07 +0300, Per Lundberg wrote: > >> Isn't there any XDMCP-capable server available in squeeze that can > >> speak ipv4 any more? I'm fairly sure xdmcp over ipv4 works just fine with both xdm and gdm in squeeze, because I tested them

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Per Lundberg
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: Hi Carl, and thanks for your reply! (I'll include my full original email, since I extended the audience to the debian-devel list as well) > Per Lundberg writes: > >> Isn't there any XDMCP-capable server availab

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Carl Johnson
Per Lundberg writes: > Hi there! > > Isn't there any XDMCP-capable server available in squeeze that can > speak ipv4 any more? > > I read about the "net.ipv6.bindv6only" issue (in a bug report). > However, that setting is most assuredly set to 0 when I check

IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-28 Thread Per Lundberg
Hi there! Isn't there any XDMCP-capable server available in squeeze that can speak ipv4 any more? I read about the "net.ipv6.bindv6only" issue (in a bug report). However, that setting is most assuredly set to 0 when I check with sysctl -a. I also forcibly disabled IPv6 support al

XDMCP session, lenny client: pictures are displayed as black area

2010-04-13 Thread Ekkard Gerlach
Hi, A lenny client makes XDMCP, server is a suse 9.2 machine. Images (simple black-white-scans 100kB) are displayed with "kuickshow" application as area completely in black . Why? Using gwenview instead of kuickshow all pictures are displayed korrectly - but gwenview 1.1 in not u

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to > login > > to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then > retu

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login > to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns > a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. > > I know this is

XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-24 Thread Scarletdown
I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. I know this is wrong, because another box on my network is also XDMCP enabled, and its GDM chooser is

Re: XDMCP build

2009-12-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2009-12-17, Jamie White wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know a quick way I could a computer running a Linux build > solely for the purpose of XDMCP? > > Do a minimal install, then install xorg. Then you start the X server using the command 'X -query '. -- Liam O'

XDMCP build

2009-12-17 Thread Jamie White
Hi Does anyone know a quick way I could a computer running a Linux build solely for the purpose of XDMCP? -- Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GTK apps over XDMCP - Anyone else find lists slow?

2009-05-25 Thread Seb James
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 21:40 +0100, Seb James wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having trouble with GTK lists (for example a list of emails in > evolution) being very slow to scroll in Debian Lenny when using a remote > login via XDMCP. Scrolling is fine when using a local session.

GTK apps over XDMCP - Anyone else find lists slow?

2009-05-23 Thread Seb James
Hi List, I'm having trouble with GTK lists (for example a list of emails in evolution) being very slow to scroll in Debian Lenny when using a remote login via XDMCP. Scrolling is fine when using a local session. Has anyone else noticed this issue? I've tried a couple of differ

Gnome/GTK programs slow over XDMCP in Lenny

2009-05-22 Thread Seb James
ttention to the speed of Evolution and other GTK programs during my testing. The problem is that I use XDMCP to connect to the server on which my Debian system is running. It seems that GTK programs in Lenny run rather badly. The particular problem seems to be scrolling GTK lists, which is very slu

Re: [gdm-list] connection failed to via xdmcp

2009-04-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Abdelkader: I ve tried to connect to server via XDMCP, (I am using debian lenny with gnome). Following the doc I ve just to enable in gdm.conf , [XDMCP] section, Enable=true. On some machines it ran, on other it didn't ??? If you edit the configuration file by hand, you may need to rebo

connection failed to via xdmcp

2009-04-01 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, I ve tried to connect to server via XDMCP, (I am using debian lenny with gnome). Following the doc I ve just to enable in gdm.conf , [XDMCP] section, Enable=true. On some machines it ran, on other it didn't ??? When I ran on distant client xdmcp chooser, the server didn't appear

Re: xdmcp remote login, can log in to the server from one computer but not another

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Bishop
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:48:37PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to setup xdmcp login on one of my servers. > > This server has two network interfaces (actually 4, but two active). > > I'm trying to log in to X using xdmcp (enabled via gdm config) from two

xdmcp remote login, can log in to the server from one computer but not another

2009-01-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to setup xdmcp login on one of my servers. This server has two network interfaces (actually 4, but two active). I'm trying to log in to X using xdmcp (enabled via gdm config) from two clients, one connected directly via gigabit ethernet and the other over 100mb netw

allowing remote xdmcp logins

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to enable remote logins into gdm on my work computer. Seems to work (set [security] DisallowTCP=false [xdmcp] Enable=true) gdm looks to be listening on port 177 and trying to do a remote login shows the system description. The problem is that when I actually try to connect all I get is

Re: XDMCP Capable Login Managers

2008-08-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 07:08:20PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > Other than GDM and KDM, are there any other graphical login managers > that allow a client to login to a remote machine via XDMCP? I was > hoping that WDM (Wings Display Manager) could do this, but I have not > seen any o

XDMCP Capable Login Managers

2008-08-30 Thread Scarletdown
Other than GDM and KDM, are there any other graphical login managers that allow a client to login to a remote machine via XDMCP? I was hoping that WDM (Wings Display Manager) could do this, but I have not seen any option on the login screen to connect to a remote machine. I have a really lean

Xdmcp on light client

2008-05-13 Thread abelahcene
Hi, I want to log from light client (diskless terminals), on one machine , simple PC the connexion is Ok, I received the gdm login, on another machine server , the connexion is possible from a PC but not from light client, it just blinking. May be a gdm problem, version 2.16, gnome-core 2.14; th

Re: KDM XDMCP error

2008-04-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
Towncat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of > them from the other using XDMCP. If I run KDM on the remote machine > and try to log in, KDM just restarts. If I run XDM on the same > machine, I can login in through

Re: KDM XDMCP error

2008-03-28 Thread Towncat
in throughXDMCP. I can also log in withKDM > locally on the remote machine. Where should I start tracing the > problem? > > Thanks: > tc > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDM XDMCP error

2008-03-27 Thread Towncat
I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of them from the other using XDMCP. If I run KDM on the remote machine and try to log in, KDM just restarts. If I run XDM on the same machine, I can login in through XDMCP. I can also log in with KDM locally on the remote machine

Re: XDMCP question

2007-12-27 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hüvely Balázs wrote: Hi All! I have a problem with XDMCP. It's works fine, i can connect it to XDMCP remote server, but i cannot disconnect from the session... I only able to log out, and re-login. How can I make detachable XDMCP sessions like in windows remote desktop. I do not think

XDMCP question

2007-12-27 Thread Hüvely Balázs
Hi All! I have a problem with XDMCP. It's works fine, i can connect it to XDMCP remote server, but i cannot disconnect from the session... I only able to log out, and re-login. How can I make detachable XDMCP sessions like in windows remote desktop. I'm a beginner linux user,

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > >>> One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in >>> Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp >>> config

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp configurations to fail when they really are ok. If you look in your logs you'll see reports of kdm_greet getting m

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 28 April 2007 15:23, Robert Brockway wrote: Thanks for the response. > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local > > host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE >

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears to be a pure X session with no

XDMCP

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel D Jones
Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE loads when I log in. From a remote machine, however, I get what appears to be a pure X session with no Windows manager running. I get the hollow X

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-31 Thread E Frank Ball
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:42:45AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I suggest you remove the line which loads the vnc module and try again. > > A potential 'gotcha' is that, depending on the contents of the file > ~/.vnc/xstartup, the VNC server might launch the same window manager > that your display

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-31 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from the server > (also forwarding X) to run individual X based applications so that the > display is on the laptop, but I can't figure out how to get it to operate so > t

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:41:03 +0100 Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] > > I second the proposal that a solution based on VNC is your best > > bet. It should even be possible to run a VNC viewer on your laptop > > and connect to your

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 > > Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > [...] > > > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from > > > the server (also for

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] > > > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from > > the server (also forwarding X) to run individual X based > > applications so tha

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Smither
t; > The other is my workstation, and runs KDM to allow me to logon and run KDE. > > I also have a (work provided) laptop running Windows XP, onto which I have > installed Putty and Gygwin/X. > > When this laptop is on my home network, I can run up a remote session into &g

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required (p.s.)

2006-07-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
Another fairly easy approach I forgot to mention would be VNC, but in that would involve opening the appropriate port on your router, and replacing cygwin/X with a vncviewer on the laptop. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
ne. > > The other is my workstation, and runs KDM to allow me to logon and run KDE. > > I also have a (work provided) laptop running Windows XP, onto which I have > installed Putty and Gygwin/X. > > When this laptop is on my home network, I can run up a remote session int

Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Chandler
also have a (work provided) laptop running Windows XP, onto which I have installed Putty and Gygwin/X. When this laptop is on my home network, I can run up a remote session into the KDM logon using XDMCP, and effectively log into my workstation from the laptop. When I am outside my house, this

Re: enhancing xdmcp performance

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen Patterson wrote: Either way (ssh or XDMCP) are much quicker than regular vnc. As with all things, that depends. GTK2 applications would kill XDMCP on my network (100mbit) so I switched to VNC and made sure to try each of the encodings. Some of the encodings are slower over the

Re: enhancing xdmcp performance

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:00:18 +0200, Cam wrote: > XDMCP works surprising well, but it's still a little sluggish > (especially when switching workspaces or alpha effects come into play > (like w/ the download manager in firefox, or the logout screen in > gnome). I'm using a w

enhancing xdmcp performance

2005-06-06 Thread Cam
XDMCP works surprising well, but it's still a little sluggish (especially when switching workspaces or alpha effects come into play (like w/ the download manager in firefox, or the logout screen in gnome). I'm using a wireless network, which may be too slow... or would a faster network

SOLVED__Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Ridge Chittenden
e is running X? > > > > Machine A (adam) is running gdm. From machine B > > (byron), I log on to adam's gdm screen, which is > > delivered by XDMCP. When I log on to adam from > byron, > > I use an adam user account; the display is on > byron. > > (a

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Darryl Clarke
adam's gdm screen, which is > delivered by XDMCP. When I log on to adam from byron, > I use an adam user account; the display is on byron. > (adam has no monitor, keyboard or mouse.) > > Is it adam or byron that needs the XF86Config-4? If > adam, what sort of "monitor&quo

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Ridge Chittenden
; > I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being > > used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no > monitor. I > > have XDMCP set up so that I can log in to an X > session > > on the machine from another machine on my home > > network. > > > >

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
d, no mouse, no monitor. I > have XDMCP set up so that I can log in to an X session > on the machine from another machine on my home > network. > > The question: I want to slim down the machine as much > as I can (RAM is limited), and I don't want to load > stuff I don'

XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Ridge Chittenden
Hi all, (Another question, new thread Appreciate all the help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. I have XDMCP set up so that I can log in to an X session on the machine from an

Re: Gnome XDMCP on server

2004-09-13 Thread Rado Rethmann
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:30:10 +0200, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to configure GDM or Xfree86 in any way not to search for a mouse (that's the hanger I guess) ? In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "ServerFlags" AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection That was the tric

Re: Gnome XDMCP on server

2004-09-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:37:17 +0200, Rado Rethmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using cygwin-X on my WinXP-Box to access the Gnome-Desktop (2.6) on my > Debian-Sarge-Server (Kernel 2.6.7) over XDMCP. > My problem is that GDM has to be up and running to

Gnome XDMCP on server

2004-09-10 Thread Rado Rethmann
Hi there, I'm using cygwin-X on my WinXP-Box to access the Gnome-Desktop (2.6) on my Debian-Sarge-Server (Kernel 2.6.7) over XDMCP. My problem is that GDM has to be up and running to login via XDMCP (then it works perfectly well). But - as servers are - I don't have a mouse, k

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-05 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 02:45:10PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:49:34PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Interesting, that was indeed it. Once I added a -fp to the Xvnc > > invocation, everything worked fine. Strange that has never been needed > > before. Any idea wha

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:49:34PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Interesting, that was indeed it. Once I added a -fp to the Xvnc > invocation, everything worked fine. Strange that has never been needed > before. Any idea what changed to make this a new requirement? No idea. I went back as f

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:51:48PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Sep 3 17:45:35 thor wdm: X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient > > resources for operation) > > Sep 3 17:45:35 thor wdm: Major opcode of failed requ

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Sep 3 17:45:35 thor wdm: X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient > resources for operation) > Sep 3 17:45:35 thor wdm: Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Sure... if you'll note the actual error, wdm i

VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-03 Thread Jamin W. Collins
by running the following command on the remote system: Xvnc -once :1 -query localhost If the -query option is dropped, and thus VNC's XDMCP request, VNC works fine. I've tried switching display managers from wdm to xdm with no change in the error message. I've also tried both

xdmcp remote xserver probelm

2004-02-03 Thread Hendrik Sirges
Hi. I got a problem setting up remote connections to a xdmcp server. gdm is running on the remote-machine. i also commented out the nolisten tcp lines in /etc/X11/xfs/config and /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc i changed only one line in gdm.conf: [xdmcp] Enable=true when i try to start a remote

Re: xdmcp & Xwilling problems

2004-01-07 Thread Vittorio
PC1) and a desktop PC (PC2), connected thorugh eth0, BOTH > using debian testing and kde 3.1.4. > > In a nutshell I want to work on the desktop PC monitor, keyboard & mouse > watching the portable screen through the desktop monitor. > > > I have the following in BOTH

xdmcp & Xwilling problems

2004-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
le screen through the desktop monitor. I have the following in BOTH kdmrc [Xdmcp] Enable=true Willing=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xwilling Issuing the command X -query PC1 :1 (PC1 & PC2 are resolved in /etc/hosts and the th0 conenctions works correctly) The following **intricated** diagnostics comes

XDMCP + LBX

2003-07-05 Thread Daniel Rogerio de Souza
quot; from Konsole (KDE) running on vt07. But the connection is too slow. So I need to set up LBX. I read the docs for lbxproxy, proxymngr and xfindproxy and I can't see a way to combine the XDMCP stuff with LBX. I'll appreciate any help you can give me. Regards, Daniel Rogerio de So

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:52:44PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > What about running X locally and starting the window manager remotely? Doable, though I can't tell you offhand how to get the window manager to run remotely, since I don't recall where it's started from. > 1. less sensitive to NIC hiccu

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
nd causing problems, but even when I was running the locally installed image it never froze like this. My luck with USB NICs has been pretty bad as well. Any chance of going to a more reliable connection? Keep in mind that with XDMCP, the display is being managed by a remote machine. If you lo

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Another possibility I've considered would be to not use XDMCP but > instead NFS mount everything and invoke it from the client. Yeah, that works pretty well, provided the client's RAM and CPU are up to the task. > I

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
gt; problems, but even when I was running the locally installed image it > never froze like this. My luck with USB NICs has been pretty bad as well. Any chance of going to a more reliable connection? Keep in mind that with XDMCP, the display is being managed by a remote machine. If you lose

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread jereme
Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a related question: Once you are running an XDMCP session on > the client, is there any way to invoke an executable on the client > machine? Connect to the Xterminal from your session host. Export a DISPLAY variable and then me

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Here's a related question: Once you are running an XDMCP session on the client, is there any way to invoke an executable on the client machine? Specifically, I want to be able to turn off the screen on the client machine, which can be accomplished by running a special executable on the c

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