[K12OSN] X -query possible with LTSP 5?

[Jim McQuillan]

Jim,

Enabling remote access on the login manager won't effect LTSP in any way.

Keep in mind that by enabling remote access it does setup a certain 
amount of vulnerability, but anybody running LTSP-4.2 already has that 
vulnerability anyway, so i'm thinking it's not a big deal for you.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:12:04 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote
>> Jim,
>>
>> Sure it's possible.  Just because LTSP isn't using XDMCP anymore doesn't 
>> mean you can't use it from a mac.
>>
>> You'll just need to configure GDM to allow remote connections.  That's 
>> possible through the "Login Window" preferences.
> 
> Is there any side effects to this or should everything still work just as before?
> 
> Only reason to doing this that teachers still run OSX until next summer.  So in the
> meantime I want to provide them and easy solution (such as a shortcut on their desktop)
> that will allow them to run the LTSP environment from their current osx session without
> any rebooting or anything.  So the old X -query trick was the first thing that came to mind.
> 
> If you could just give me a confirmation that this "shouldn't" (I promise I won't take
> that as a guarantee :-) break anything or have any performance hits, I'll give it a whirl.
> 
> I thought of VNC or FreeNX, but just thought that this could be quicker, and the
> keyboard mapping thing was a bugger before when I tried it.  But that was almost 5
> months ago, so maybe this is fixed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
>