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newbie question -connecting to remote host via XDM

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Who joined July 19, 2006, 7:37 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2013, 8:04 p.m...
How do you direct an IRIX workstation to connect to a headless IRIX box using XDM for a session? Solaris and other CDE boxes have the little drop down menu on dtlogin, but IRIX doesn't seem to have that (unless you're using IRIX CDE, but (a) this is a 6.2 box and (b) who uses IRIX CDE?)

I guess that I can boot single, chkconfig off all the graphics stuff, then manually fire up X with "-query my.host.ip.address", but that seems a bit difficult.

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canavan
Who joined July 21, 2003, 5:19 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 16, 2013, 7:39 a.m...
Check the manpage for xdm and search for "chooser" or "XDMCP". I have never used any of those on a SGI.
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duck
Who joined Oct. 27, 2003, 5:22 p.m.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 17, 2013, 9:21 a.m...
Clogin doesn't support XDMCP AFAIK. If you disable "visuallogin" in chkconfig, it'll present you with the (ugly) default X11 login screen that should support it (I haven't tried).

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