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Don't know if this has been posted yet, but ... to have your computer act as an XDMCP client and allow remote desktop login, enter this command at a terminal prompt: X -broadcast -quartz, or if you know the IP of the machine providing the XDMCP server, X -query ipaddr -quartz. This will only work if you have some type of XFRee86 software installed. Execution of these commands will launch your XServer for you. Do NOT launch your XServer manually. Information on how to setup the server side for XDMCP can be found anywhere on the web.
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You can use this with OrorobosOSX or XDarwain if you want to as well. Open a terminal and launch Xnest :1 -broadcast or Xnest :1 -query {hostname}. Works like a charm!
huh?
How is this different from forwarding or blowing back X windows?
RE: huh?
The difference is with XDM you're getting the complete desktop from the remote system. In essence your Mac just becomes a dumb X terminal. This can be useful for accessing Suns or SGIs or similar systems. These systems can be hard to navigate unless you get the whole desktop, menu system etc.
RE: huh?
i used the command "X -query ip-adress -quartz" in terminal to get the desktop of a sgi in our local network. But after the start of XDarwin there are some infos in the terminal ending with "screen 0 added ...." and "screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate ..." and then nothing happened.
Xvnc and XDM
If you don't want to bother with setting up an X terminal, you can use vnc. It's often faster than X, can use ssh tunnelling, and run cross platform (although the OSX viewers are of varying quality). If you setup it up, you can even use a java applet to connect to the machine. I have a page on how to setup xdm on OSX and Xvnc.
Xnest network issues
Took me some time to get this working on my setup. Today I finally managed to get it operational, so here are two more useful pieces of information on how to deal with some issues. Make sure to allow Xnest in the firewall settings in the security panel of your system settings. Seems automatic firewall settings don't allow incoming connections to Xnest, causing a lot of TCP SYN packets to a listening socket but still no connection. If you have multiple network connections (i.e. multihomed setup), give
Xnest network issues
Thank your for this tip. I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why Xnest stopped working and all I got was a black screen. Using the last part of your tip (multihomed systems use -from) was the fix. I would never have thought of that.
Accessing an XDMCP client through XDarwin
I've been able to successfully use Apple's X11 Beta 3 for XDMCP connections to other hosts using Mac OS X 10.2.4. I start a terminal session, and define a display variable (e.g., 'setenv DISPLAY :0.0'). Note if you do not do this first, you will get the behavior you described of having the Xserver start and then appear to do nothing. Then, I execute a XDMCP query X session start (e.g., 'Xquartz -query ip-addr'). This starts the session, and you will see the messages you described appear. You will also get a new docked icon whose name is the same as the Xserver you started (e.g., 'Xquartz'). If you select this item with the mouse, and then move you mouse off onto the normal screen and wait, you should get your full-screen Xsession from the host at ip-addr to appear. This first screen takes a while to come up, but subsequent screens are very quick.
Accessing an XDMCP client through XDarwin
okay, the original hint worked wonderfully when I was onsite at our company. But dialing in thru dsl with vpn gave me the following error message: |
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