Re: [gentoo-user] OT -Dumb Terminal and Bonus Question

[Zac Medico]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 15:13 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>
>>Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>>On my network there are two machines:  baby and blossom.  baby has a 900
>>>megahertz processor with 256MB RAM.  blossom has a 200 megahertz
>>>processor with 128 RAM.  Right now baby has Gentoo 2005.0 and blossom is
>>>running Red Hat 9.  I would like to set up something where my wife can
>>>log in on blossom (it's my wife's computer) and it connects blossom to
>>>baby (via the network)  I want blossom to act as a dumb terminal, with
>>>all requests made on blossom going to baby.  My wife prefers GNOME, but
>>>it runs so slow on blossom (that's why she wanted RH9)  I'm pretty sure
>>>there's a way to do this, but I don't know how to start.  I know I could
>>>use Google, but I don't know how to phrase my query.  I know that all
>>>this could be accomplished with ssh, but is there a simpler way?
>>>
>>
>>You want to use blossom as a thin client?  Three choices that come to mind are xdmcp, nx, and vnc.  If you want you can use a specialized thin client distro such as thinstation or ltsp.
>>
>
> Can you point me to any tutorials/HowTo's about doing this?
>

To setup xdmcp on the server you can follow the Displaymanager instructions [1] from the gentoo ltsp howto.  On the client you start the Xserver with the -query option (see the Xserver manpage).  See the xdmcp howto [2] for further information.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml#doc_chap3_sect8
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

Zac
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