Fwd: Re: [buug] KDE on a remote PC?

Bob Read unixjavabob at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 25 11:56:55 PDT 2002


--- Bob Read <unixjavabob at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:51:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bob Read <unixjavabob at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [buug] KDE on a remote PC?
> To: Skip Evans <evans at ncseweb.org>
> 
> Skip,
>    I think you're talking about the "XDMCP"
> protocol,
> which is supported by many X servers, including the
> solaris X server.  On solaris, the X server listens
> for XDMCP messages and calls a program called
> "dtlogin" to give you a login and remote X session
> via
> exceed or hummingbird.
>    Like you, I've only administered this on solaris.
> 
>    A quick search on yahoo for "XDMCP server BSD"
> brought up a bunch of links like this one:
> 
> http://librenix.com/?inode=745
> 
>    Happy trails!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> --- Skip Evans <evans at ncseweb.org> wrote:
> > Okay, once I get settled here I'll stop asking so
> > many questions. Ian said he was not sure this
> > scenario was possible but I did work under this
> > environment at two, at least, different jobs and
> > want to know if it's possible with BSD.
> > 
> > Our Solaris servers fired up X windows on the
> > server, but I don't think the server actually
> showed
> > the desktop on its display. It had something
> running
> > in the background, is what I think was going on.
> But
> > anyway, we would connect through an X windows
> > server, I believe Xceed was one we used at the
> first
> > place, and it would find the KDE running on the
> > server and you'd get the KDE on your PC, just like
> a
> > workstation. It could be minimalized like any
> other
> > application on your Windows machine, and then
> popped
> > back open whenever you wanted access to it.
> > 
> > Anyone see this before? Anyone know if BSD can do
> > this? I've been assuming that it can. I mean,
> can't
> > BSD do anything Solaris does, only better ;)
> > 
> > 
> > Skip Evans
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