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Xdmcp is the X display manager control protocol; it is a remote desktop protocol in that it allows a user of one desktop to connect to and interact with another desktop.

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can't login in lightdm (16.10) with xdmcp

Using Xming from a Windows I can get the lighdm login screen. After introducing the right password, the Xserver window goes grid gray and then the login screen is shown again. Any clue? (thanks in ...
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what is the best choice to replace RDS Server ...LTSP or XDMCP in 14.04

At work I need to replace Remote desktop server with same ubuntu server that give me ability to attach hp thin clients with it so users can login to desktop and run application same as windows RD. ...
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Multiple users over VNC - lightdm

I'm a student and I have access to a pretty powerful machine in the University lab. I've been trying to allow my roommates to remotely login to my machine on an account that I've created so that they ...
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How do I restrict a user to a specific thin client?

I am using 10 thin clients on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with an xdmcp server. All thin clients display all user names and allow any client login with any user account. Even two or more thin clients login with ...
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Enable numlock at login screen - with thin client?

I want to enable numlock at the login screen. numlockx is already installed. I've tried adding greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on to etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, which by the way only works if it'...
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How do I enable XDMCP login in Ubuntu 14.04 from the initial Login screen?

I need to enable XDMCP from the initial GUI login screen. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and am connecting to a CentOS 7.0 XDMCP server.
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can't have multiple login screen

I am trying to use Ubuntu 22.04 on a PC and multiple X terminal (vcxsrv on window) XDMCP and X-11 works but i can't have multiple greeter running at the same time : Until i login on the server screen,...
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Can't login via lightdm

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 that is setup for remote logins via XDMCP/LightDM. Authentication is done via LDAP/SSSD. Everything works fine and users can login into KDE Plasma, except that for some users ...
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How do I set-up LightDM and gnome-session-flashback to use XDMCP?

I'm trying to create a terminal session on another computer in my local area network. I have used XDMCP in the past, but it's pretty long ago ('06 & '07). I remember it being a breeze to set-up ...
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No desktop appears after logging in using XDMCP

I just installed a test machine with Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and I went to configure the XDMCP access and found that the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is not there anymore. In Google I found that now it is ...
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