Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:17:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Zhang Weiwu" <zhangweiwu@realss.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting up an X terminal? Message-ID: <13004.218.85.105.222.1082956625.fusewebmail@www.fusemail.com>
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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.
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