Hi everybody,

I searched everywhere, but I'm still stuck... Can someone please help me, or at least put me in the right direction?

Here is what I want:

I have laptop, running linux. (working great btw). This starts with a graphical login.
I also have two linux PC's, also providing a graphical login.
When I use M$-windows's x-win-pro (or winaxe / hummingbird exceed, or whatever win X-server) I get a box, displaying all the machines I can access (pc's are configured with xdmcp)

Now here's what I want:
When I start the laptop, I would like to see that same box, giving me the choice: login local, or remote to the Linux PC's..
Or even better: on display 1 (ctrl-alt-f7) logon local and display 2 (ctrl-alt-f8) a graphical display with the ability to choose one of the other linux machines...
Or even more better: (the perfect world): on display 1, just a local login, and all other displays (2-4) a graphical box to choose which machine I want to use.

Also, i prefer a kind of startup script, with a command to check if I am connected to a network, and if so, start the other displays, otherwise don't..

I think this should be possible. I am running Redhat 7.3 and the PC's are configured with xdmcp.

Can anyone shed some light on where / how to start ?

I would be really greatful...

Hello,

A simple solution:

Suppose the local linux machine - with the display in front of you have ad IP A and the remote linux boxes have adresses IP B, C, ....

type on machine A :
xhost +B
xhost +C
xhost + ...

and login in on the remote linuxes box B,C ...

telnet B
<user defined on B>
passwd : <passwd>
export DISPLAY=A:0

now if you type something like "xclock &" you have xclock on the display of machine A. and it's not necessary to launch a GUI on remote linux boxes B, C ... It's pretty useful to launch emacs like that to control your remote box.

And for simple administration of users, host files, services ... NIS - aka YP - allow you to make changes on one box and to apply theses changes on all boxes on the same NIS domain.

HTH

Thanks, but thats how I use it now...
However, I would like to use the laptop as a display only, the PC with linux on it is much heavier equipped.....
So thats why I want to work on Display 2 as if i was on the box itself, and able to choose which machine to use.

After selecting the machine from a list on display2, i would like to see the grapchical loginscreen of that one....

Okay, here's where I am now:

When booting my machine, it's all default. So i get 1 X display, with a graph login.

Next I go to a terminal (ctrl-alt-f1) and login as root (using bash)
There I type:
X :1 &

This will start a second X server on display 1 (ctrl-alt-f8)

Now I type:
DISPLAY=localhost:1;export DISPLAY

Now when I type xclock in the shell, it will start xclock nicely on the X server I just started....
So far so good!

Now I run chooser BROADCAST
and indeed: all my servers show up in the chooser menu.
Then I choose the server I want to work on from the menu, and click OK.

I was hoping to see the graphical login of that server, however, nothing happens.

I do see a message Cannot create response socket

Anyone ideas ???

Is there any way of making this work (and a way to do this at boot?)

What is wrong with this thread? Is this question too difficult? (Or am I too stupid?)
Why are there no answers? Someone should know how ??? C'mon guys, (and girls) help me out a bit, I'm really stuck here...

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Cannot create response socket
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The remote server you want to connect probably don't have the right to create socket on your local computer - perhaps a xhost + remote IP on your laptop would help

Thanks allo!

However, I already did that, and it still didn't work...

Anyone have ideas ?

Im trying this for weeks now, but it seems no-one knows the answer....

Take a look at these 2 docs:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...XDM-Xterm.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...te-X-Apps.html

David_Ross: A real Guru Indeed.... This was exactly what I was looking for!!! Thanks... I knew it had to be simple....

For all who are interested on how to:

I run the following command:

X :1 -query the.remote.machine

This will start a second display on my machine (ctrl-alt-F8) showing the login screen of the.remote.machine

I also found a second option, but it's not running yet (Maybe I am doing something wrong:

X :1 -indirect my.xdmcp.server

According to above links, it should show a display showing all available XDMCP-hosts in my network. But for some reason, the screen flickers a few times, but there's no lit shown....

How can I run this command at boot, but after X has started?


I created a simple script that checks if I can reach the.remote.machine (using a ping)
If it can be reached, it should run the command, and if it's not reachable, do nothing...


Now, where to place this ?

ping OTHER_HOST -c 3 -w 5 > /dev/null

If it returns 1 then the host is dead, 0 the host is alive and 2 if an error occured.

As for placement I would go for rc.local

Hi David,

I created a script with this in it:

--------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash

/usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -query 1.2.3.4
---------------------------------------------------------------

I saved this script as /etc/X11/xconnect

Then, in rc.local I added a line:

/etc/X11/xconnect

This script generates output, and the machine starts waiting untill this job is finished. However, it's never finished. (Running X throws some information, and keeps running)



I hope you understand what i mean. It's difficult to explain if you don't know all correct terms...

The preferred outcome should be:

When I boot my machine in runlevel 5:
The default Xserver starts, (sitting in ctr-alt-f7) and showing me the login screen
then:
when 1.2.3.4 is available it should run the xconnect-script.
this script should start the remote xdm on :1 (sitting on ctr-alt-f8 ), and show me the loginscreen of the remote machine (1.2.3.4)

When i boot in runlevel 3 (or init back to init 3) it should stop all X servers running on the local machine.

Hopefully this is clear ?? Thank you in advance!