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Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On my network there are two machines: baby and blossom. baby has a 900 |
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> megahertz processor with 256MB RAM. blossom has a 200 megahertz |
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> processor with 128 RAM. Right now baby has Gentoo 2005.0 and blossom is |
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> running Red Hat 9. I would like to set up something where my wife can |
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> log in on blossom (it's my wife's computer) and it connects blossom to |
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> baby (via the network) I want blossom to act as a dumb terminal, with |
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> all requests made on blossom going to baby. My wife prefers GNOME, but |
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> it runs so slow on blossom (that's why she wanted RH9) I'm pretty sure |
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> there's a way to do this, but I don't know how to start. I know I could |
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> use Google, but I don't know how to phrase my query. I know that all |
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> this could be accomplished with ssh, but is there a simpler way? |
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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. |
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> Bonus question: |
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> blossom has a TV card. I'd like to know (if it's possible) how to |
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> access blossom's TV card from baby. If it matters here's the output |
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> from running lspci on blossom. |
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> root@blossom's password: |
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> Last login: Sat Jul 9 15:43:50 2005 from baby.espersunited.com |
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> [root@blossom root]# lspci |
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> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) |
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> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) |
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> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) |
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> 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) |
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> 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) |
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> 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ |
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> 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a) |
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> 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. |
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> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: |
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> Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) |
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Maybe you can pipe the output of a framegrabber program through netcat? |
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Zac |
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