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- From: swalton@huey.csun.edu (stephen walton)
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- Subject: Setting up PC X servers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183251.21984@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:32:51 GMT
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- Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation
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- Message-Id: <9301211750.AA16126@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 09:46:54 -0800
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- (I'm sending this to the xpert mailing list because we receive USENET
- at our site, but posting is broken at present.)
-
- I am in the process of configuring some systems as X terminals here
- (PC-class machines and Sun-3 workstations running Seth Robertson's
- Xkernel setup). I'd like some help with this, as I'm just an
- astronomer trying to get some work done, not a systems guru.
-
- Basically, I'd like xdm (or chooser) on our file/compute server to put
- up its window essentially automatically when the X servers are
- started. I see that on the Sun-3 "X terminals" I can do this with the
- "-indirect" or "-query" switch on the server, but I assume I need an
- entry in /etc/services to enable XDMCP. What might this be? How do
- I specify the path to the xdm and chooser binaries?
-
- The PC-class machines are harder. The X server I use most, the
- GfxBase one for the Amiga, doesn't have the -interactive switch. Is
- there some safe way to essentially do an "anonymous rsh" to start xdm
- (or chooser) on the file server pointed at the X server on the Amiga
- (and other PC-class machines to arrive soon)?
-
- Thanks in advance for the help!
-
- Stephen Walton, Cal State Northridge
- "Talking about my generation/Hope we grow up before we get old"
- --Loudon Wainwright III
-