"Remote login" option at login screen

[D. R. Evans]

D. R. Evans said the following at 08/16/2008 10:38 AM :

> 
> 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?

Turns out that it's not enough to just restart the X server on the
destination machine. For some reason one needs to reboot.

Once one does that, one can remotely log in.

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