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RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 04:16:27 -0000 You have read the handbook? https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Specifically: 5.6.2. Configuring Remote Access ?? That's if I understand your musings correctly? On 7/08/2019 10:44 am, hw wrote: > MJ writes: > >> The archives contained here: >> >> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/ >> >> >> Assuming you're amd64 based. Extract them into that directory. > Yes, thanks! It can't get any easier :) > > I got it to work today, so I can PXE boot FreeBSD and kinda *jump* users > into an xfreerdp session on the xrdp server right after they logged in > at the console, abusing startx as login shell and a suitable .xinitrc in > their home directories mounted via NFS. > > What I couldn't get to work is XDM doing that for me, which seemed to be > the way it ought to be done. Like a machine would PXE boot and show XDM > and a user logs in and instead of XDM starting a window manager, it > starts xfreerdp --- which also raises the question how I could avoid > requiring the user to log in twice after getting XDM to work somehow. > > > For the record, the Thinstation stuff didn't work at all. It was > impossible to create a bootable image (perhaps Fedora is an incompatible > host system), and even the VM image they supply to make images is not > bootable (which otherwise should be compatible so that bootable images > can be made ...). So save your time and go to FreeBSD instead. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >