From jkyllo@u.washington.edu Thu Apr 22 03:17:44 1999 Received: from bp09.u.washington.edu (root@bp09.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.75]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id DAA43620 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:17:43 -0700 Received: from fred (D-128-208-38-65.dhcp.washington.edu [128.208.38.65]) by bp09.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id DAA47726 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:17:43 -0700 Message-ID: <002301be8ca9$64332e30$4126d080@fred.sanlorenzo> From: "Jeffrey J. Kyllo" To: Subject: Re: Linux as an X terminal Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:17:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 I seem to have run into a problem. Should I be running ssh locally or on the UA machine? If locally, then there's the problem. I didn't install it when I installed Linux and a friend of mine is borrowing my CD's. So, where can I download it? I tried looking in the UNC archives but they don't seem to be organized very well. Any ideas? As far as versions go, I'm running RedHat 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Dittrich To: UW Linux Group Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 13:58 Subject: Re: Linux as an X terminal >On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, R. David Whitlock wrote: > >> Variation on this I hadn't ever tried: can we still XDM login to the UAC >> machines (locally of course) ? I can't think of a great reason to do so, >> but.... > >Part of the problem may be that you are trying to use "setup xlab", >which is *not* a general XDM replacement. It is very specific to the >C&C X Terminal Labs, using NCD X terminals (booted with our server code, >using XDM like capabilities of a central C&C system). > >As for XDM on UA systems, C&C has never supported this. One major >reason is you are sharing that system with thosands of other users, and >running multiple X clients under XDM is not very memory friendly. > >I suggest using "ssh" as Mike Hornung explained, for greatest ease, >greatest security, least impact on shared systems. > >-- >Dave Dittrich Client Services >dittrich@cac.washington.edu Computing & Communications > University of Washington > > >Dave Dittrich / dittrich@cac.washington.edu [PGP Key] > > .