From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 05:34:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05119 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.qmw.ac.uk (gamma.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.6.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA05021 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 05:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk by gamma.qmw.ac.uk with SMTP-QMW with ESMTP; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:45:45 +0100 Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id LAA01145; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:45:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:45:40 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199806091045.LAA01145@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id LAA17054; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:40:36 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jonathan Chen CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an X-Terminal In-Reply-To: <99847710@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen said: >[For some reason my original mail didn't make it to the list..] > >Hi, > >I'm trying to set up a minimal FreeBSD system (2.2.6) as an >X-Terminal. I've installed X (it works), but I can't seem to figure >out how to configure it so that it issues an XDMCP request to our >central host (a SCO box) so that the latter will present a login >widget on the FreeBSD box. We used to have a bunch of Sun SS-1's as X-terms (*loved* those 19" Trinitrons...) They just ran a local X server and xdm; xdm would put up its server list (it does some XDCMP broadcast to figure out who the servers are). You'd just choose the server you wanted and the xdm login widget comes up as normal. I set the same thing up under NetBSD -- it was pretty easy and all in the xdm docs. Unfortunately this was three years ago so I can't remember the details. Maybe you are getting confused by the distinction between the 'local X server' which runs *on the X-terminal* and provides the display, and the server that runs all the clients (the SCO box in your case)? Anyhow, xdm will do what you want. HTH, Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message