Remote Access OS X to YDL X

[James Cass]

> So what is happening? Has my OS X X11 become the "x server"
You've just established a remote X-session with your YDL box.  Just 
like in the good old days.

> 3. Switch to X (make sure you have a way to get out of X...
After you log out of YDL, change focus to the MacOSX Terminal window by 
clicking on it.  Then you can "control-c" to cleanly quit X.

> In many ways it feels much smoother
Oh yeah, it's much better.  Try "Tux Racer" now.  It's actually 
enjoyable and not jumpy at all.  Don't try Chromium or Maelstrom 
though.  They still creep for me.

I keep my YDL4 iBook (600MHz) on my home network but out of the way, 
and I can still access YDL4 from my PowerBook.  It is sweet!

- James


On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:07 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Wow, this is mind blowing! I'm accessing my YDL box (Beige G3/266) via
> 10 BaseT ethernet to an 802.11b router from OS X with X11 installed
> (Pismo G3/400). In many ways it feels much smoother than if I access
> that same box via VNC Thing (OS X) & vncserver (YDL), plus, it runs at
> millions of colours without a slow down!
>
> So what is happening? Has my OS X X11 become the "x server", i.e. my
> Pismo is now the CPU that does the heavy lifting with respect to
> providing apps running on the YDL box with screen update services? All
> the Beige G3 YDL box has to do is run the apps that I ask it to and
> then these apps communicate with the "x server" running on the Pismo?
> What happens to these apps if I were to restart OS X without actually
> logging out of my YDL X11 session? Would they eventually "time out"?
>
> I'm just trying to piece together the little pearls of knowledge I've
> gleaned from the lists over the past few months.
>
> That was so simple (still a little stunned):
> 1. From the "System Settings" menu in YDL select "Login Screen". Turn 
> on XDMCP.
> 2. (make sure X11 is installed into OS X) From the OS X console run:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query IPaddress
> 3. Switch to X (make sure you have a way to get out of X...
> command-option-A will take you out of full screen mode if you happen
> to end up in it, command-option-escape will bring up the Force Quit
> dialogue).
>
> That's it!
>
> Eric.
>
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:19:27 -0500, James Cass wrote:
>> Ooooo!  This is really cool!.  What you're going to do is establish an
>> X session with your YDL Mac.  On your YDL Mac, enable XDMCP through 
>> the
>> "System Settings/Login Screen" settings (requires root password).  Go
>> there, and click on the "XDMCP" tab (it's the last tab).  Just click
>> "Enable XDMCP".  I leave "Honour indirect requests" checked.  Leave 
>> the
>> defaults for the others.  Make a note of your IP address of your YDL
>> Mac.  You can actually logout to the YDL login screen now.
>>
>> Now, on your MacOSX Mac, go to the Terminal.  Issue this command:
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 192.168.0.5      (capital "X", but use your IP
>> address of your YDL Mac.  If all goes well, you'll see something like
>> this:
>> ---snip----
>> XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
>> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
>> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
>> Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
>> ---snip-----
>> Followed magically by a YDL graphical login prompt (if you have
>> Graphical Login set for YDL) on you MacOSX Mac!  Sweet!  Login as one
>> of your YDL users and you'll see the normal login process.  The YDL
>> task bar and everything you need will show up.  You now have YDL and
>> MacOSX right at your fingertips.  It takes a little getting use to.  
>> If
>> you want to share files back and forth, you can either smb over to the
>> YDL Mac, or start the Appletalk service on the YDL Mac.  Either way 
>> you
>> can pop a share from the YDL Mac on your MacOSX Desktop.
>>
>> HTH....James
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Ted Goranson wrote:
>>
>>> Now that I have YDL4 running, I'd like to be able to use it within a
>>> Mac OS X machine on the network.
>>>
>>> I know it is possible to do this, perhaps using VNC?
>>>
>>> What I desire is to have an already running (permanent) Emacs session
>>> on YDL and have it appear in a window on my Mac OS X system. Is this
>>> easy? Would it work with any application, like Kword? What do I need?
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