[CLUE-Tech] poor man's kvm

[mike havlicek]

What I was unclearly trying to describe was a way of
displaying multiple X desktops on a single Linux box.

This is probably not the most secure thing to do, but
I find it handy on my home network. I have several
Linux/Unix systems on my home network. I use one Red
Hat 9 box as my main box with a keyboard mouse and
monitor. By default the inittab on my main box is set
to give you 6 ttys which can be toggled using alt-F#
(1 - 6) and alt-F7 takes you to your local X session.
(ctrl-alt-F# to get from the X session back to one of
the ttys).

Say I have another Red Hat 9 ( just to be accurate
about the files ... could be another Linux or Unix )
"fred" on my home network. On fred I enable XDMCP. In
this example that would be setting Enable=true in the
[xdmcp] section of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and
restarting gdm.

On the main box I log in on one of the ttys and do:

X -query fred :1

which will fire up a desktop session associated with
F8 in this case.

Hmm .... I wonder if there is a "secure" way to do
this.

-Mike

--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 August 2004 01:01 am, mike havlicek
> wrote:
> > If you are like me you have several unix/linux
> boxen
> > on a
> > "firewalled" private network. This is old news,
> but
> > anyway, you can use the ttys assigned to your F
> keys
> > to open desktops on the other unix boxen as long
> as
> > you "open" your xdm.
> 
> I'm not sure how you mean this to work...
> 
> Right now I am doing something of the sort,  only
> I'm using ssh on a console 
> to log on to a different box and then I can access
> *one* console on that 
> other box.
> 
> What would I be doing different?
> 
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