"Remote login" option at login screen

[D. R. Evans]

So, since it's raining here (and since I'm feeling adventurous after my
near-disaster earlier this morning), I'm playing around with trying to get
some things working that I've not tried before.

I just spent the last hour or so on something, and am getting nowhere, even
after googling.

In the login screen (which I think I understand as being provided by
something called kdm, which is a replacement for xdm), there is an option
on the drop-down menu to perform a "Remote Login".

As I understand it, this is supposed to allow me to get a KDE desktop on a
remote machine.

Does anyone know, though, exactly what steps one needs to go through in
order to get this to work?

I've been trying to get this configured so that I can remote login via this
method to my laptop (running Kubuntu 8.04). But all that ever happens is
that I get the grey X screen with the "x" in the center.

I can't find a nice simple howto anywhere. Instead all I can find is a
bunch of quasi-random pages talking about this kind of thing, and I think
I've tried everything that those pages talk about.

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