[kde-doc-english]KDM distant connections

[Malcolm Hunter]

Hi,

You might like to use Kevin's howto for reference too. I suggested to him to
add the bit about kdm.

http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/projects/xdm-mini/xdm/config.html

Regards,
Malc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-doc-english-admin at mail.kde.org 
> [mailto:kde-doc-english-admin at mail.kde.org] On Behalf Of Lauri Watts
> Sent: Friday, 28 February 2003 19:39
> To: kde-doc-english at mail.kde.org
> Subject: Re: [kde-doc-english]KDM distant connections
> 
> 
> On Friday 28 February 2003 10.41, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been told by Yves, a new KDE user, that there's nothing in our 
> > documentation to explain how to let KDM offer a distant connection 
> > (XDMCP protocol).
> >
> > He is under KDE 3.0 and I explained him that he should modify
> > 	$KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
> > He said that it worked out.
> >
> > I think it would be nice to explain that manipulation in the doc. 
> > Moreover, it would be better to allow to configure that in 
> kcontrol, 
> > but in the meantime we could document the manual procedure.
> >
> > I have asked Yves to explain exactly what he did and what he was 
> > exactly trying to do (which machine does what, etc). Whoever takes 
> > this documentation tasklet, please contact him directly to get that 
> > information.
> 
> I have some work from Ossi (KDM maintainer) to merge into the 
> kdm doc, and I 
> use xdmcp (with remote KDM) all the time, so I can quite 
> likely have a go at 
> this.   
> 
> That leaves two remaining problems:
> 1: kdm's doc doesn't have a maintainer, so it looks like 
> that'll be me for a 
> while, unless someone speaks up now
> 2: kdm's doc isn't accessible anywhere in KHelpCenter.  I 
> might file that as a 
> bug, since we keep forgetting to do anything about it, the 
> problem boils down 
> to, KDM doesn't install a .desktop file 
> 
> Anyway, after a hectic few weeks past, I have more time in 
> the near future, 
> and will catch up on a whole lot of things in the next week or so.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Lauri Watts
> KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
> KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
> 
> 

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