Making progress, but need more help on remote x login...

["William M. Wise" <willwise mindspring com>]

Hi!  Thanks to everyone who has helped so far.

I've got my home system setup so that I can remotely start x-clients on my work system that connect to my x-server at home by using the xhost command and modifying the DISPLAY environment variable.

What I have not been able to do is figure out how to iniate a remote login to my work system using xdm.  If I rlogin to my work system and execute xdm as anything but root it tells me that only root should run xdm.  If I use SU to get root access and run xdm it just starts-and-stops with no login screen displayed on my
X-server at home.  I can't rlogin as root on my work system.  Do I need to do this?

I guess my question is:

Once I've got connectivity established between my x-server at home and remote x-clients at work, how do I use xdm to login to my machine at work as a sort-of thin-client?

Performance is pretty good so far with apps running across the cable modem, BTW!   :-)

Thanks!
Will