[K12OSN] 1 nic k12ltsp 6.0

Nadav Kavalerchik nadavkav at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 15:17:50 UTC 2008


we use Xming to connect to k12ltsp (fc6) server
from windows XP successfully !

i recommend it.

btw, make use /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess has access permissions to those windows
(or other) machines ! otherwise, you will be rejected
and no login :-(

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Chuck Kollars <ckollars9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >  ... The reason that GNU/Linux or *BSD boxes are so much easier here is
> > that they generally come with X11 servers, ...
>                                    ^^^^^^^
> Yep, that's not a typo. In the X11 world the end with a screen you look at
> is the "server" and the end that invisibly produces the data is the
> "client". If you look at the internals and consult a dictionary this
> terminology is "correct", but it's probably opposite to how you're used to
> thinking about pragmatic issues. In X11-land, the "server" is the terminal,
> not the thing in the back room.
>
> >  ... I'd suggest Googling for "XDM" and "MS Windows" or something
> > along those lines.  That'll probably turn up an XDMCP-supporting X11
> > server. Hummingbird used to make an X11 server for Win32, but I don't
> > know if they still do. ...
>
> Also try simply Googling for "Windows X|X11 server". There's currently at
> least one freebie package that works reasonably well, it seems that either
> Hummingbird or its successor still sells this software, and altogether there
> are a whole handful of choices.
>
> >  ... Avoid getting too many clients connecting this way, as they
> > extract a greater load ...
>
> Yep, this sort of client transfers complex graphics (not simple circles or
> squares) bit by bit, and so can produce a very heavy load on your network
> and use lots of buffering RAM on the other end.
>
> thanks! -Chuck Kollars
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/attachments/20080924/f8a08549/attachment.htm>


More information about the K12OSN mailing list