[TriLUG] Great article for Linux consultants - lots of great quotes

[Magnus]

On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 07:33  AM, Jim Ray wrote:

> Mr. Ball mentions thin client yet doesn't disclose what
> server-side software he uses.

It's probably just XFree86 with XDMCP enabled.  Part of what supports 
this is "One of the great things is that we're able to run a poor man's 
thin client by using old computers we weren't using before because it 
couldn't handle Windows 2000."

He's probably got a stripped down Linux running on the older computers, 
with /etc/inittab modified.  Take the line that looks like:

	x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

And change it to something more like:

	x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query fasthost.localdomain.com

(I think that's right but you might want to double check the syntax 
before making the change)

Of course that won't work until you've gone through the necessary steps 
to get XDMCP running on "fasthost".

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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