From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 15:25:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E930106566C for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:25:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F318FC12 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MHJUg-0001I5-Mt; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:41 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MHJUf-0007S4-OI; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:38 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5IFPagf024382; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5IFPa9X024381; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:36 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Nathan Message-ID: <20090618152536.GA24358@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <1240594738.58743.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090428133027.GA45901@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241076847.28498.291.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241301413.33649.110.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090616095729.GA98713@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1245183702.71590.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:25:44 -0000 On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:14:03AM -0600, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > no, that doesn't work either. > > I wonder if anybody has actually successfully used dbus with XDMCP. > > I know it should work, but maybe nobody has tried, so perhaps there > > are some issues. > > > > I have a user group of about 20 people, all under the university firewall, > > so insecurity of XDMCP is not a major concern. > > I was thinking of having a powerful XDMCP server as an energy efficient > > and easy to maintain model, since the desktops only need to have a good > > graphics card. If that is not working, then perhaps I have > > to switch to plain ssh tunneling, and have full X installation on all > > desktops. > > I don't know anything about dbus or hal, but we're using a FreeBSD 7.2 > server that we just used to connect 150 thin clients (peak load of > about 100 concurrently connected right now) to it over XDMCP to use > gnome. The biggest trick was finding the magic config line to > configure xdm with (since gdm's xdmcp doesn't work). After that, our Could you please elaborate on this magic line? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423