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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Kutulu <kutulu@kutulu.org>
Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: home pc use
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> XWin32 is a very nice Win32 server, that supports one feature of the X
> system that I didn't find in other products.  It can log into a remote
> system running xdm (or clone) via XDMCP.  The means you can connect
> to, log into, and run applications on the remote system without having
> to fire off a shell first and start any window managers.  
> Unfortunately, XWin32 runs about $250 for a single user lisence.  I
> haven't figured out how to do the same in XFree86 yet, but I also
> didn't try very hard, as I now prefer to tunnel X stuff through my ssh
> session.

To do this in XFree86 simply type this on the commandline:

X -query hostname -once

This will do an XDMCP query to the machine "hostname"
Change the hostname to query a different machine.

Ken


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