Client Terminal configuration

HsuGotaQ · Mar 12, 2003, 10:52 PM

At my work, we have a couple of workstations that we are going to transform into client terminals, because they are just too slow to do anything else but this. I've got redhat 8.0 setup and I have rdesktop configured and working to connect to my Win2K Terminal Server.

My question is,

A) Is there a way to make the system automatically logon with a default user account?

B) Is there a way to automatically start X Windows without using a window manager and also starting automatically afterwards rdesktop?

Question A) is not that important because I think that I just might have made a typo in the configuration, but I can't seem to find any faqs for my question B). Also, if there is other methods of doing this, but by using other distros or pre-packaged rpms, I would greatly appreciate known of such options.

HsuGotaQ · Mar 13, 2003, 10:03 PM

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UberLord · Mar 14, 2003, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by HsuGotaQ
A) Is there a way to make the system automatically logon with a default user account?

Not AFAIK.
Besides, having something like this could pose a security risk

Quote:

B) Is there a way to automatically start X Windows without using a window manager and also starting automatically afterwards rdesktop?

Why would you want to do this? X by nature needs a window manager. Infact if you don't specify a window manager then X loads it's internal one.

I'm thinking that you need a custom ~/.xsessionrc to specify loading rdeskop instead of KDE/GNOME.

Mar 12, 2003, 10:52 PM	#1
HsuGotaQ Hydrogenated Dumbass Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canuckland Posts: 755 Rep Power: 0	Client Terminal configuration At my work, we have a couple of workstations that we are going to transform into client terminals, because they are just too slow to do anything else but this. I've got redhat 8.0 setup and I have rdesktop configured and working to connect to my Win2K Terminal Server. My question is, A) Is there a way to make the system automatically logon with a default user account? B) Is there a way to automatically start X Windows without using a window manager and also starting automatically afterwards rdesktop? Question A) is not that important because I think that I just might have made a typo in the configuration, but I can't seem to find any faqs for my question B). Also, if there is other methods of doing this, but by using other distros or pre-packaged rpms, I would greatly appreciate known of such options.

Mar 13, 2003, 10:03 PM	Thread Starter #2
HsuGotaQ Hydrogenated Dumbass Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canuckland Posts: 755 Rep Power: 0	bump