On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Chris Mohler wrote: > >> actually, I'm sort of stuck doing almost that because I can't seem to > >> get older iMac's to work as thin clients on ltsp 4.2 and one of the guys > >> that helped with the Mac client utils says I need to look at what they > >> employed on k12ltsp so I'm downloading the ltsp-6-32-bit disc images > >> atm. > > > > Can you issue > > > > startx --query IPADDRESS :1 > > > > from the iMac? I assume you have already installed the X11 from apple > > and can issue a "startx" (or "startx :1"?) from the X11 terminal and > > get the grey screen with the X. > > > > I had this set up some time ago - an old iMac connecting to FC2 ala LTSP 4 > > If the Mac is running 10.3/10.4 OSX, grab the free NX client at > http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-macosx.php and run it against > freenx on fedora. Unless the reason you want to run as a thin client is > that it won't boot anymore... There are lots of advantages compared to > a normal remote X session. ---- yeah but you wanna know what bites? there's no Linux-ppc nx client Craig
