From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 11:53:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629D537B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 318C043FA3 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonas.jochum@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 8964 invoked by uid 65534); 26 Apr 2003 18:53:42 -0000 Received: from pD95478A9.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO gmx.net) (217.84.120.169) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 26 Apr 2003 20:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: <3EAAB8DF.1000508@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:50:39 +0200 From: Jonas Jochum User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20030426150705.P9976@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20030426150705.P9976@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a central X server ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:53:45 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: >Can someone point me at docs on how I can do this? >basically, I have a rackmount server here that has 4Gig of RAM and dual >CPU ... I'd like to setup X on it such that my staff's workstations run >their apps off of that machine, instead of their desktops ... >I've found some docs on XDMCP, but they seem to revolve more around being >able to set it up for Xceed and such, not for going from/to FreeBSD boxes >... > Yeah, just run gdm, xdm or kdm on the server, and set it up to use xdmcp. On the client machines you do X -broadcast, then you should be able to do what you want ;-) >Now, the one thing I'm not sure whether would work or not is sound ... if >the X stuff is on a remote server, then the programs are running over >there, so is there a way of "connecting" back to the client computer for >their sound? > You could use esd or another sound daemon for that. Bye, Jonas