Dumb Terminals/X Forwarding

[littonj]

I'd like to set up one linux box as a multi-user multi-terminal system.

How could I do this with network booting the other systems?

Could this be done using dumb terminals over serial ports?

Also as a side note, is there a way to use x forwarding to start an x session via ssh/telnet?

[godot]

if you have an X server running on the terminal ssh can tunnel the X info and display it on that terminal. For instance I use X-Win32 to run gkrellm through ssh.

[littonj]

what's the command to start x through ssh? I found that "startx -- :?" starts x on the server not in ssh session

[godot]

startx is to start the XFree86 server on the computer you're logged in to, you don't need to do that to get X functionality through ssh, you just need an X server on the client. When I ssh into my linux box I just type "gkrellm &" because I have X-Win32 run at startup, and it pops up on my screen. You only run startx from a tty terminal.

[littonj]

I was interested in running the client as a diskless system and if I understand what you're saying you mean that you have a version of X installed on client system. Correct?