[ydl-gen] Remote Desktop YDL PS3 to OSX

[Sanders, Rob M.]

Jon,
    I was wanting to do something very similar to what you suggest.
I remember years ago logging in to remote machines from some
'dumb' X-windows terminal machines.  There are some performance
advantages I believe tho by using VNC if you're not on a relatively
hi-speed network.  I've got a 10/100/1000 switch at home in the 
computer room, but my 'rest-of-house' network is only 10mbs wired.  
No wireless in place.  Also, CotVNC doesn't need X started on the 
Mac first. 
  I'm going to play with this some more when I can dig up some free
time.....
                                                Rob
 

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	Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:52 AM
	To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
	Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Remote Desktop YDL PS3 to OSX
	
	
	Have you all considered just doing X?
	
	You can set it up by unfirewalling the X ports (I don't know if
they are firewalled off, but I remove firewall settings of distributions
as a matter of habit), and running gdmsetup, which will let you
configure gdm to accept network requests.
	
	Then, in OSX, you can just:
	
	1) on your PS3, allow XDMCP connections on the firewall
	
	iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 177 -j ACCEPT
	iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp --dport 177 -j ACCEPT
	
	2) on your PS3, run gdmsetup, and under the "Remote" tab, do
something other than deny remote logins (mine is set to "same as local")
	
	3) on your OSX box, launch X11.  In the terminal that pops up at
the start of X11, start your X session in a new window
	
	Xnest :1 -query HOST_OR_IP_OF_PS3
	
	4) If you want a different window size, you can try adding a
"-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT"
	
	5) Note that it does NOT allow root logins in this manner.
	
	Unfortunately, I don't know how to get OSX's glx to do direct
rendering :(
	
	Jon
	
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