Howto make a linux box act as an Xterminal ?

[Marc Houppertz]

Hi,
I want my linux Box to act as an Xterminal to log on a Sun server
Solaris 2.6.
I have no idea how to do it. If some one can tell me some hint.
From Solaris to Solaris it does it on is own you just have to specify
the remote server on the client.
Can I do the same for Linux as client ? I am also willing to fixe the
remote host to one server

Do I have to use xdm ? if yes tell me more about it i read the doc but
it speak more of the server side of the story and did not find, get or
understand information for the client side.

Thanks to the help

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[William McBrine]

In alt.os.linux Marc Houppertz <ma...@mail.interfinance.be> wrote:

: I want my linux Box to act as an Xterminal to log on a Sun server
: Solaris 2.6.

startx
xhost +sunmachine
telnet sunmachine

(on sunmachine:)

set DISPLAY=linuxmachine:0.0
xapp &

That's it, more or less. There are other ways to proceed (some more secure
than this), but this should suffice.

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[Victor Wagner]

Marc Houppertz (ma...@mail.interfinance.be) wrote:
: Hi,

: I want my linux Box to act as an Xterminal to log on a Sun server
: Solaris 2.6.

: I have no idea how to do it. If some one can tell me some hint.

: From Solaris to Solaris it does it on is own you just have to specify
: the remote server on the client.
: Can I do the same for Linux as client ? I am also willing to fixe the
: remote host to one server

Do you really want to reduce your Linux box to mere X terminal?

If so, you should define it in xdm configuration file on Sun
and then
run

X -query sun.host.name

instead of startx

But I, in your place would just telnet or rlogin to sun and start
x program from here setting their DISPLAY to linux.box:0

It is easy to write some shell commands in your .login or .profile, which
would automatically check where
you come from using who am i command and set DISPLAY env var
accordingly. So you just telnet or rlogin and run X commands without
giving any thoughts to it. Then click on another window and run X
programms locally at the same time.

It would require some tricks with authorisation, unless your home
directory is NFS mounted from sun on Linux or vice versa. (in last case
plain xauth style auth would work). Don't ever use xhost +machine.
It opens your display to any user on that machine (and you probably are
not only one)

: Do I have to use xdm ? if yes tell me more about it i read the doc but

: it speak more of the server side of the story and did not find, get or
: understand information for the client side.

: Thanks to the help

: Ps: send me also reply at my Email directly

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[Andy Harrison]

[Posted and mailed]

In article <734fj2$q9n$1...@wagner.wagner.home>,

vi...@wagner.wagner.home (Victor Wagner) writes:
> Marc Houppertz (ma...@mail.interfinance.be) wrote:
>: Hi,
>: I want my linux Box to act as an Xterminal to log on a Sun server
>: Solaris 2.6.
>: I have no idea how to do it. If some one can tell me some hint.
>: From Solaris to Solaris it does it on is own you just have to specify
>: the remote server on the client.
>: Can I do the same for Linux as client ? I am also willing to fixe the
>: remote host to one server
>

I do this on a daily basis. It is not necessary to effect an xdmcp login to
the Sun box in question. Simply fire up X under linux, telnet to the Sun box,
set your DISPLAY variable to your linux box IP (i.e. setenv DISPLAY
192.168.0.1:0.0) and fire up and X app. The only problem i've had really are
the few and far between X apps that have proprietary colormaps.

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[Dieter Demerre]

Andy Harrison wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <734fj2$q9n$1...@wagner.wagner.home>,
> vi...@wagner.wagner.home (Victor Wagner) writes:
> > Marc Houppertz (ma...@mail.interfinance.be) wrote:
> >: Hi,
> >: I want my linux Box to act as an Xterminal to log on a Sun server
> >: Solaris 2.6.
> >: I have no idea how to do it. If some one can tell me some hint.
> >: From Solaris to Solaris it does it on is own you just have to specify
> >: the remote server on the client.
> >: Can I do the same for Linux as client ? I am also willing to fixe the
> >: remote host to one server
> >
>
> I do this on a daily basis. It is not necessary to effect an xdmcp login to
> the Sun box in question. Simply fire up X under linux, telnet to the Sun box,
> set your DISPLAY variable to your linux box IP (i.e. setenv DISPLAY
> 192.168.0.1:0.0) and fire up and X app. The only problem i've had really are
> the few and far between X apps that have proprietary colormaps.

This is *not* the same. I 'd like to have the same functionality as mr
Houppertz asks.
Your sollution (Victor) does not allow you to login directly to the
remote machine. You have to login to the local machine then run your
x-apps. What I (and I guess Marc) want is to be presented with the
login screen (X-login) of the remote machine. To get the feeling of
what I meen, try running xwin32 of Starnet communications on a network
where some X-servers are running. Then you'll know what we want.

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[Andrew Haines]

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Check out this site:
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html

[cn...@normandnet.fr]

Hiya!

I have a Linux RH52-server (hostname:scanner.univ-rouen.fr) with xdm running
on it.

I want to connect to a remote Linux host from a NCD Terminal.

I have the chooser window on X Terminal with :

mercator.univ-rouen.fr Available (load: 0.00)
scanner.univ-rouenfr Willing to manage

When I want to connect on 'scanner' I have error :
"no XDMCP server ..."

The network should be correctly configured on the Linux machine and XDM
is up and running on it.

Can someone let me know what files need to be modified?

Thank you.

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Hello X-windows experts,

I have several labtam color X-termianls equipped with ISDN,
I was wondering if there were any applications I could run on the server
that would enable me to share this ISDN connection with the whole
network.

Thanks and Merry Xmas!!