[techtalk] remote xwin?

[Naomi Hospodarsky]

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At 11:21 AM 4/21/2000 , you wrote:
>Hello again!
>
>First off, thanks to everyone for answering my permissions/users questions
>about creating admins and root users.  I was amazed at how quickly I got a
>response.  I have since then created a second root user (called god) with
>uid 0 that can do everything the root can do.  As a side note, this user is
>NOT included in all the access denied files, so it can do things like telnet
>and FTP in without a problem.  This is probably quite dangerous ;-)
>
>I also downloaded sudo and am working with it now.
>
>But I digress...today's problem is as follows:
>
>I have several RHL 6.0 machines on my network.  I would like one to act as
>the XServer, and have the others connect to it via an x interface to run
>apps, print, etc.  However, I don't want the "clients" to have to install
>the entire XWindows package.  I guess what I'm looking for is a "thin client
>to server" connection, but I'm not really sure if that fits the
>description...?
>
>I've got a client like this running on an NT (Please don't stone me!)
>machine, using a program called SuperX (www.frontiertech.com).  I'm
>guessing, therefore, that it would be fairly straightforward on a fellow
>Linux box.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>
>
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