Questions tagged [xdmcp]
Xdmcp is the X display manager control protocol; it is a remote desktop protocol in that it allows a user of one desktop to connect to and interact with another desktop.
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How do I configure lightdm to work with XDMCP?
Does anyone have a set up to make XDMCP work with LightDM on 11.10. Using XDMCP+GDM was easy as pie, worked great. After the upgrade to 11.10 with the switch to LightDM I can't figure out how to get ...
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How to use XDMCP+GDM and Xnest?
I have been trying to enable XDMCP on GDM without much success.
Following some instructions I have edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf and added:
[daemon]
RemoteGreeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-xdmcp-chooser-slave
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(closed) Configuring and using Xdmcp with gdm3 on ubuntu 18.04
On a fresh minimal ubuntu 18.04 installation, I tried to activate and use the gdm3 xdmcp server.
Here are steps I followed:
Installation
I used the normal installation.
"Download updates during ...
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Make GDM accessible only remotely via XDMCP, while console remains in text mode
I have a 10.04 server and I have installed gnome-desktop on it so that I can do some of work in a nicer way. I connect to gdm remotely via XDMCP (Hummingbird Exceed) but at the same time I want the ...
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Enable Autologin for Xvnc/XDMCP? [closed]
Version: Ubuntu 9.10
How I do to enable automatic login in Xvnc/XDMCP?
Im in the process of setting up a Xvnc kiosk, which will be a terminal server hosting multiple kiosk machines under separate ...
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LightDM not responding to XDMCP requests 12.04 LTS
Since a recent upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS I can no longer login using XDMCP (ssh -XC is okay).
This is similar to an earlier question but the answer (add xserver-allow-tcp=true) didn't help ...
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can't login in lightdm (16.10) with xdmcp
Using Xming from a Windows I can get the lighdm login screen. After introducing the right password, the Xserver window goes grid gray and then the login screen is shown again. Any clue? (thanks in ...
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Why does Unity screen blank out over XDMCP?
My XDMCP sessions display fine until I login. I've checked all logs and settings for this and can't find anything wrong, this works fine on other systems so I'm wondering if this has anything to do ...
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what is the best choice to replace RDS Server ...LTSP or XDMCP in 14.04
At work I need to replace Remote desktop server with same ubuntu server that give me ability to attach hp thin clients with it so users can login to desktop and run application same as windows RD.
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Multiple users over VNC - lightdm
I'm a student and I have access to a pretty powerful machine in the University lab.
I've been trying to allow my roommates to remotely login to my machine on an account that I've created so that they ...
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XDMCP setup for lightdm, ports not listening
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, lightdm. It appears my XDMCP service is setup correctly, but it won't connect.
I have the following in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
[XDMCPServer]
enabled=true
To restart ...
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How do I restrict a user to a specific thin client?
I am using 10 thin clients on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with an xdmcp server.
All thin clients display all user names and allow any client login with any user account. Even two or more thin clients login with ...
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Enable numlock at login screen - with thin client?
I want to enable numlock at the login screen. numlockx is already installed. I've tried adding greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on to etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, which by the way only works if it'...
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How do I enable XDMCP login in Ubuntu 14.04 from the initial Login screen?
I need to enable XDMCP from the initial GUI login screen. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and am connecting to a CentOS 7.0 XDMCP server.
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can't have multiple login screen
I am trying to use Ubuntu 22.04 on a PC and multiple X terminal (vcxsrv on window)
XDMCP and X-11 works but i can't have multiple greeter running at the same time :
Until i login on the server screen,...
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Using epiphany-browser via a remote xdmcp session
Epiphany-browser works fine when I am on my physical machine running Xubuntu 22.04, however when remotely accessing the machine via an xdcp connection using vcxsrv I get the following error message:
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Can't login via lightdm
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 that is setup for remote logins via XDMCP/LightDM. Authentication is done via LDAP/SSSD. Everything works fine and users can login into KDE Plasma, except that for some users ...
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How do I set-up LightDM and gnome-session-flashback to use XDMCP?
I'm trying to create a terminal session on another computer in my local area network.
I have used XDMCP in the past, but it's pretty long ago ('06 & '07). I remember it being a breeze to set-up ...
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No desktop appears after logging in using XDMCP
I just installed a test machine with Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and I went to configure the XDMCP access and found that the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is not there anymore.
In Google I found that now it is ...
