Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:25:36 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Nathan <nathan.stocks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? Message-ID: <20090618152536.GA24358@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> References: <1240594738.58743.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090428133027.GA45901@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241076847.28498.291.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241301413.33649.110.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090616095729.GA98713@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1245183702.71590.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:14:03AM -0600, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > no, that doesn't work either. > > I wonder if anybody has actually successfully used dbus with XDMCP. > > I know it should work, but maybe nobody has tried, so perhaps there > > are some issues. > > > > I have a user group of about 20 people, all under the university firewall, > > so insecurity of XDMCP is not a major concern. > > I was thinking of having a powerful XDMCP server as an energy efficient > > and easy to maintain model, since the desktops only need to have a good > > graphics card. If that is not working, then perhaps I have > > to switch to plain ssh tunneling, and have full X installation on all > > desktops. > > I don't know anything about dbus or hal, but we're using a FreeBSD 7.2 > server that we just used to connect 150 thin clients (peak load of > about 100 concurrently connected right now) to it over XDMCP to use > gnome. The biggest trick was finding the magic config line to > configure xdm with (since gdm's xdmcp doesn't work). After that, our Could you please elaborate on this magic line? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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