How to setup a headless machine
David L Norris
dave at webaugur.com
Thu Jan 27 23:09:41 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:58 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > ssh -Y user at host /usr/bin/gedit
> >
> This is more like what I was looking for. I tried the command above. but
> ssh did not recognize the -Y option.
> I tried it without the -Y (in KDE Konsole) : `ssh user at host
> /usr/bin/kwrite` and got 'kwrite: cannot connect to X server'.
On FC3 you need to specify ssh -X (enable X) or ssh -Y (enable trusted
X) to enable X11 forwarding. You'll need trusted X (-Y option) for
features like the clipboard to work. I believe that -Y is a new option
in the version of the SSH client with FC3. You may also need to enable
X11Forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the headless machine and/or
ForwardX11 in /etc/ssh_config on the clients. The -X and -Y options
should override ssh_config.
> I did not completely understand all your instructions. So I googled and
> foudn this HOWTO which I'll give a good read (
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ ). But can this be done with KDM
> and KDE as that's what I normally use?
Here is the KDM documentation for XDMCP:
http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdebase/kdm/kdm-files.html#kdmrc-xdmcp
I'm guessing that you should be able to set enable=true in the [xdmcp]
section and it will work. I'm not clear if you will need to setup the
Xaccess file for such a simple use.
> And does this require the headless machine to be at runlevel 3?
You would have it at runlevel 5. I don't think you need a X server
running on the machine but you do need a XDMCP enabled display manager
to be running.
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David Norris
http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
ICQ - 412039
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