Re: RH8 to RH9, come in RH9...

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

M.Hockings wrote:
> I now have not one but TWO working RH systems at home.  A RH9 system 
> that has lots of  disk and is used primarily as a household server and a 
> wee little P 133 with RH8.  What I would like to have happen is that the 
> RH8 system start X with the RH9 system as the client (I think I got that 
> right) and put up the graphical logon for the RH9 machine.  I try the 
> command "X -query <RH9-ip-address>" and regardless of the firewall 
> settings on the RH9 system it fails with the message "XDM:Too many 
> retransmissions" in the XFree86 log.
>
> Any thoughts on what I need to configure to get these two machines to talk?
>
> In my ideal world the RH8 machine would show the graphical logon for RH9 
> when RH9 is up otherwise show the logon for itself (RH8) thought I would 
> be happy with text mode if RH9 is not up.

You want the wee little 133 RH8 machine to act as an X terminal (not to
be confused with "xterm") to your RH9 machine?  If that's the case,
the proper terminology is:

	As far as X is concerned, the RH8 machine will be running the X
	server and the RH9 machine will be the X client.
	The RH8 machine is a client on your network, while the RH9
	is a server on your network.

Yes, it's confusing.

Do you have port 177 for both TCP and UDP open on the firewall?  You'll
need that for xdmcp (X display manager control protocol).  Also verify
that the RH9 machine is in your Xaccess or .xhosts files.
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