[TriLUG] Solaris X session from Linux

[John Beimler]

begin  quotation from Vestal, Roy L. <rvestal@rti.org> [on 011214 10:45]::

> I'm trying to do an xdm
> 

First you need to enable xdmcp on the sun box.

$ man xdm 

for instructions how.

Second, run X like so:  

$ X -quiet -query solaris.server.name

I've done this a lot with linux, not so much with solaris though.  

References:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

Best of luck!

Peace.

john