On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Michael Beddow wrote:
One further very minor point. The statement that the terminal server side of things will work "out of the box" on a current Mandrake distro is almost correct, but not quite, as I've just verified by doing a special clean install of Mk 8.1. There is one essential small modification that needs making (plus another one the may be desirable for some people)
It was accurate at the time of writing (Mdk8.0) :-)
1) Out of the box, a Mandrake installation will not serve an xdm login prompt to any remote X server. To make it do so, <snip>
Thanks for this. Which *dm are you using: xdm, kdm or gdm? I'm using kdm and I found an entry in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc which, in a default installation of Mdk8.1, reads: [Xdmcp] Enable=false Changing this to Enable=true has the desired effect. In 8.0, kdm used the xdm configuration files for most settings instead of its own kdmrc file. It's probably worth adding a file "AppServers.txt" with instructions on how to ensure that XDMCP is set up to work on the servers, isn't it? It would be nice if this could include instructions for multiple distributions, even if the instructions are just "It will work as-is with a standard installation of this distribution". Can I use your e-mail as a basis for this file? Also, if anyone can give instructions for other distributions besides Mandrake, please let me know and I'll add them in. Michael