From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 22:17:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A54B16A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1A843D39 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zhangweiwu@realss.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with smtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1BHyUL-0007SO-Sn for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:17:05 -0500 Received: from 218.85.105.222 (FuseMail web AccountID 32359) by www.fusemail.com with HTTP; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:17:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <13004.218.85.105.222.1082956625.fusewebmail@www.fusemail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:17:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Zhang Weiwu" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: setting up an X terminal? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: zhangweiwu@realss.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:17:07 -0000 Hello. I have an old Pentium MMX notebook running FreeBSD and a 2.5G powerful desktop computer running Gentoo (don't flame me, there are too many Linux guys in the office). Now I wish to use the old notebook as X server, and use the cpu power / memory / disk space of the desktop comuter. What do I need to know? Is what I'm trying to configure a so-called X terminal? I started from reading xdm manual, ends up getting puzzled by things like XDMCP. It seems I need a howto book rather than a manual. What do you suggest? It seems the xdm manual and several other documents I read suggest me to setup the destkop computer (which is running gdm) to allow XDMCP inquiry. The X server (in some documents it is called X terminal client, perhaps they mean "X terminal client = X server", "X terminal host = X client") send a inquiry to the X client, the gdm on the X client respond by sending a login screen to the X server, and the user login okay. Now following gdm manual perhaps I can get the X client respond XDMCP inquiry, but I didn't find resource on how to let my FreeBSD notebook send such inquiry. Sorry if I'm speaking about wrong thing all the time, you see I'm completely puzzled.