[CLUE-Tech] Newbie help on X windows

[Jef Barnhart]

Try this. 

$ X :1 - query headless

I have used this one for a while. The thing that will hang you up is if xdmcp is off. Check the config file for a line that shuts off remote access. In gdm, the gnome version of xdm, it has the following lines.

[xdmcp]
Enable=true <===( This is the line that says that it is ok to accept remote connections.
HonorIndirect=true
MaxPending=4
MaxPendingIndirect=4
MaxSessions=16
MaxWait=30
MaxWaitIndirect=30
Port=177

For kdm I do not know where to look for that file. You may have a kdm setup util that will allow remote connections. 

Now for one of the problems that this introduces:
If you have the machine on the internet or a network that is not trusted, you give them a nice gui to start to work from.

Jef

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:09:13 -0600
"Gary Threlkeld" <gthrelk at attbi.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone - 
> 
> I'm trying to open an X-window on one machine from another  - the machines are networked together via a router.  What I am trying to do is to only have to use one display monitor to be able to access both machines without using something like an A/B switch.  Wading thru the X-window documentation but I'm getting lost in detail!
> 
> Call the two machines Tom (server RH 7.3) & Dick (workstation RH 7.3).
> 
> 1) I think I need to disable the automatic startup on Dick (workstation) to avoid going directly into KDE (maintaining the option of opening manually).
> 
> 2) I want to establish a KDE session on Tom (server) initiated from Dick (workstation).
> 
> Can anyone offer suggestions as to how to start???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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