From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 07:25:32 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 6D1A616A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F337743D46 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: q+3VclFsb7KUZyKssZomyg 1082989522 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1575A9EB8F; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1BI71y-00039M-Lm; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:24:22 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:24:22 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Zhang Weiwu Message-ID: <20040426142422.GC15155@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: Zhang Weiwu , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <13004.218.85.105.222.1082956625.fusewebmail@www.fusemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bU/r/G0m9ZRUgpzh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13004.218.85.105.222.1082956625.fusewebmail@www.fusemail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up an X terminal? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:25:32 -0000 --bU/r/G0m9ZRUgpzh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:17:05AM -0500, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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 =3D X server", "X terminal host =3D 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Sorry if I'm speaking about wrong thing all the time, you see I'm > completely puzzled. Since you plan on using the Linux box as the main computer and the laptop as the terminal, you could simplify the the whole thing and head over to www.ltsp.org. Setting up LTSP is fairly trivial if you already have some knowledge of DHCP and NFS. There is decent documentation at the LTSP site. There is also some rather outdated (at least the last time I looked) diskless X-terminal documentation in the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.= html I currently has a diskless server running Gentoo and while I didn't use it, and therefore can't speak for it, Gentoo also has a diskless howto at their site: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --bU/r/G0m9ZRUgpzh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAjRuWO0ZIEthSfkkRAvrZAJ4xB8kCQOaAUc/0ahDc1P2qxqbEdwCfUot5 BFg+FYGeDcy6Sr4Uv/HJhuk= =GBA2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bU/r/G0m9ZRUgpzh--