[svlug] X-Windows emulation under Win98

[Jonathan Sergent]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9811202110010.17947-100000 at allegro>, Charles Peterman
 writes:
 ] 
 ] SuperX is an X windows server designed to run on a Win box and connect to
 ] a real machine running X.  This makes one of the machines in my room more
 ] comfortable for me to work on.  (SO and I have religious/ practical issues
 ] regarding installing a Linux on the home_office box.  Note that the home
 ] office box is also the one with the nice monitor as opposed to the 14"
 ] from hell.)   So I followed the instructions for making one of the Linux
 ] boxes in the house (we have two full time, one part time :) in the
 ] NCD-X-Windows mini howto.  I modified inetd.conf to allow tftp and bootp
 ] to execute and I added an entry to my machine for in /etc/bootptab.  Since
 ] the server is behind the firewall, I'm not worried this type of exposure.
 ] 

The changes you show below are to allow an NCD X terminal to load
its "kernel" off of your machine and bring itself up on the network.
You don't need BOOTP and TFTP to make X run over the network, but you
do need them to make most diskless systems boot--including NCD X
terminals, but not including Windows 98.

You should just need to edit the stuff in /etc/X11/xdm to configure
xdm to allow the Windows machine to do XDMCP, and then configure the
Linux machine to run xdm, and then you should be able to get the 
Windows machine to do an XDMCP broadcast query to find the Linux 
machine and let you log in.  I don't know anything about your particular
X server for Windows to tell you how to configure it to do this, but
it's usually the most convenient setup.

You can also just not use xdm and do it by starting the X server on the
Windows machine and then bringing up a telnet client to log into the
Linux machine, set your DISPLAY environment variable to the display on
the Windows machine, and then firing up whichever X clients you want to
use.  (This may include a window manager.  Some X servers for Windows
have their own window managers which integrate with Windows so that
you can have X windows side by side with Windows windows.  Others just 
give you one big Windows window that is your X display.)

Whew.

I think that if you just want to use it as a "pretend Linux machine"
then you should set up your Win98 X server to do the full-screen thing 
and use XDMCP to log in to the Linux machine.

If you have too much trouble setting this up, you might want to consider
using VNC.  I get the impression it's easier to set up.  I don't know
about performance differences, but hopefully there aren't any on a
10-Mbit net with just two hosts.


-- 
Jonathan Sergent / sergent at etla.net

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