Fedora + LTSP + iMac (Was: Re: Setting up a file server for a diskless X-Terminal)

[Les Mikesell]

Chris Mohler wrote:
>> actually, I'm sort of stuck doing almost that because I can't seem to
>> get older iMac's to work as thin clients on ltsp 4.2 and one of the guys
>> that helped with the Mac client utils says I need to look at what they
>> employed on k12ltsp so I'm downloading the ltsp-6-32-bit disc images
>> atm.
> 
> Can you issue
> 
> startx --query IPADDRESS :1
> 
> from the iMac?  I assume you have already installed the X11 from apple
> and can issue a "startx" (or "startx :1"?) from the X11 terminal and
> get the grey screen with the X.
> 
> I had this set up some time ago - an old iMac connecting to FC2 ala LTSP 4

If the Mac is running 10.3/10.4 OSX, grab the free NX client at 
http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-macosx.php and run it against 
freenx on fedora.  Unless the reason you want to run as a thin client is 
that it won't boot anymore...  There are lots of advantages compared to 
a normal remote X session.

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   Les Mikesell
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