GDM / XDM query

[Mike B Best]

I may just be being stupid so please bear with me :)

I have two boxes one server (RH7.2) and one client(RH8.0), I have set up xdm and that works fine. When I connect from the client I am presented with a login box with the XFree86 logo. If I am running gdm on the server when i try and connect I get the cross on the black background.

So the question I have is, do I have to use xdm and get that login box, or can I somehow get the nice gdm login screen?

below is an extract from my gdm.conf that may be of use.

AllowRoot=true
# If you want to be paranoid, turn this one off
AllowRemoteRoot=true
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=true
RelaxPermissions=0
RetryDelay=1
UserMaxFile=65536
SessionMaxFile=524388

[xdmcp]
# Distributions: Ship with this off. It is never a safe thing to leave
# out on the net. Alternatively you can set up /etc/hosts.allow and
# /etc/hosts.deny to only allow say local access.
Enable=true
HonorIndirect=true
MaxPending=4
MaxPendingIndirect=4
MaxSessions=16
MaxWait=15
MaxWaitIndirect=15
DisplaysPerHost=1
Port=177

If there is a nice how-to out there I didn't find that would be great.

Many Thanks

Mike

[mdwatts]

I only use KDE/KDM and have followed this 'Graphical Logon for a Remote Computer' (http://support.caldera.com/caldera/solution?11=010710-0032&130=0994797263&14=&2715=&15=&2716=&57=search&58=&2900=Jk0hT8yTwZ&25=6&3=remote) tutorial.

It may help for GDM/XDM.

I use Xnest for graphical connections to remote Linux/AIX systems.

[Mike B Best]

Thanks for that, that helps a lot :cool: