Re: X Terminals help appreciated

[Pieter Meiring <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
> I am currently trying to configure a Linux OS'ed PC to access another by
> this method (using xdm) but am struggling to find the right level of
> documentation to do this. As a Linux newbie I don't have the prior depth of
> knowledge assumed by some of the HOWTOs etc.
>

If you use a linux box ONLY as a dumb X terminal, make sure you have xdm (or
kdm) running on your main server (server.company.com) (Start it up in runlevel
5 - see the /etc/inittab file)

On the Xterminal box simply execute:

X -query server.company.com

Thats it.

However, if you have more powerful boxes for your terminals, you may want to
distribute power a little but share files and programs on your server. In that
case, you can go down the NIS/NFS shared information and shared filesystems
route where all user directories and shared prograsm directories are on the
server and mounted on each PC using NFS and all password/group data is accessed
from the server using NIS (ypserv, ypbind and yppasswd) Let me know if you need
any more on this...

Pieter

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