Re: Terminal Services

[Keystone7 <Keystone7 Btopenworld com>]

Rdesktop,I think i`ve heard of it, ill have a look round for it.

Thanks for the reminder :)

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:36, Delane Jackson wrote:
> also try "rdesktop".  Pretty good utility
> --- Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb eskimo com> wrote:
> > > I have been using Windows 2000 Advanced server and
> > i was wondering if there is any kind of terminal
> > services software on Linux that can project the
> > current X windows session over a network to a
> > differnt computer. What i am looking to do is setup
> > a Linux file server and basically connect using user
> > logins from accross the network to the server so
> > each user had its own area etc...
> > >
> > > If i could connect accross a network to the server
> > and get it to the display the login screen on the
> > workstations it would be perfect. If anyone knows
> > how to do this or has any ideas i would love to hear
> > from you.
> > 
> > X does this natively, and has had this ability for
> > about 20 years :)
> > 
> > Anyway, If you are running gdm, you just have to
> > make sure it's set to
> > allow remote requests.  In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, in
> > the [xdmcp] section,
> > set Enable=True and you should be good to go.  On
> > another machine, just do
> > 
> > nohup X -query hostname :1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> > 
> > and you will find yourself with a nice little login
> > screen.  You can
> > switch between that screen and your main windowing
> > screen using alt-F# or
> > clt-alt-F# keys (Red Hat usually has X on F7, and
> > your new one will
> > probably be on F8, but it may be somewhere else).
> > 
> > The :1 is the display number.  By default, the one
> > you are looking at is
> > :0.  Since :0 is already taken, you have to choose
> > another one.  The
> > -query tells X where to look to login to. On my
> > machine, I had to wrap it
> > with nohup .... >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & or else it
> > would screw up my
> > original display (this may be due to my funky
> > graphcis card, though).
> > 
> > Anyway, if you have any questions let me know.
> > 
> > Also LTSP and K12LTSP have distributions set up
> > specifically for this,
> > including remote-booting (i.e. - your clients don't
> > even need a hard drive
> > - they can boot up straight over the network).
> > 
> > As I said, UNIX has been doing this for something
> > like 20 years, so it
> > works quite well.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time...
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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