CDE: remote login

[Thomas Schler_1]

Hi,

I want to use dtlogin to get a list of remote
hosts to start their Xserver on the local
host. As documented dtchooser should be
started by dtlogin to get the list of
available remote hosts.

How do I tell dtlogin to start dtchooser?
How get I displayed the list of available
remote hosts on the local running dtlogin?

Key files seem to be Xaccess and Xservers.
My Xaccess provides open and not limited
service. My Xservers has just one entry that
starts X on the console.

I guess I have to add at least one more
line to Xservers to enable starting X
servers that are linked to remote hosts.

Who can help out with detailed information?

Regards
Thomas

[Mike Stroyan]

It is not clear to me which displays you want to run X servers on. If you want to run an X server on your local console and get a list of hosts to login to you can comment out the entry in /etc/dt/config/Xservers and instead start an X server from /etc/inittab with a line like-
xcon:34:respawn: /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -indirect myhost
That will start (and restart) an X server that asks dtlogin for an XDMCP indirect connection. You can then use an Xaccess entry like
* CHOOSER BROADCAST
to tell dtlogin to use dtchooser for XDMCP indirect requests.

If you want to run X servers on other systems and use dtchooser on this system then you need to use the -indirect option or some equivalent when setting up the other X servers. The Xaccess lines control whether particular systems are allowed to use indirect and whether they get dtchooser or just a hosts list.