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From: schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XDM??
Keywords: XDM, X Terminals
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Date: 6 May 91 20:22:47 GMT
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In article <1991May3.203305.5000@cbnews.cb.att.com>, djb@cbnews.cb.att.com (david.j.bryant) writes:
|> 	3) What X terminal and/or X Window System vendors (if any) 
|> 	   support XDM?

XDM is supported by NCD.  I believe all of their current X terminals will
use it if you configure them to.  The NCD is very flexible in that you
can bring up a telnet window to connect to a remote host from which
you can start your window manager or you can tell the NCD to send a XDMCP
query to a single host or to send a broadcast XDMCP query.

XDM is supported by the the MIT server.  To activate it on your sun or
whatever, type "X -broadcast -once" and if there is a machine on your
network running XDM you will get a login window.  This is not the usual
method of starting X on a workstation.  The usual method is to run XDM
on the local workstation and have it invoke the X server.

I have used XDM under OpenWindows.  It was simple since I had been using
the MIT X server before.  All I did was to remove the symbolic link in
/usr/local of X to Xsun and make X a shell script that set some environment
variables and exec'd xnews.  XDM gives all the proper arguments including
ones to set up the authorization key.

	Steve