Xdmxp login to remote machine via gdm

Brian Chadwick brianchad at westnet.com.au
Sat Jan 19 09:32:32 UTC 2008


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:40:29 +0000
> Da Rock <rock_on_the_web at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Guys, I know that the current version of gdm on fedora has a serious lack of support for remote xdmcp login, but I need a workaround! I want to login from a crappy machine using XP to relieve a bottleneck of systems using VMWare and a fc8 appliance. 
>>     
>
> I have found that sticking with gdm-2.20.1-7.fc8 works well with my LTSP
> setup.  You can download that from any of the mirrors.
>
>   
What serious  lack of support?   XDMCP works fine here ...

System > Administration> Login Window > Remote > Style > Same as Local.

You just have to restart X

no probs with it




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