Comment 1 for bug 1036557

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Ivan Baldo (ibaldo) wrote :

I can confirm that lightdm in Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 produces that warning when GDM Chooser running in an Ubuntu 10.04 i386 sends a broadcast to search for XDMCP servers.
The only XDMCP servers appearing are the GDM ones from Ubuntu 10.04.
Yep, I have installed manually GDM on those old Ubuntu's, guess I will have to do the same with 12.04...
Once upon a time (8.04 I think), a simple user could configure GDM to allow XDMCP and another user could simply use the option to see what servers where on the network, no creepy text command terminal involved... those where good times indeed!
Using old computers for dumb terminals was a piece of cake, really easy to set up.
Now we are stuck with unfinished programs like this!
How one is supposed to setup an Ubuntu server to work as an application server and other terminals to just connect to that server?
And what happens if one has three application servers and wants the users to choose one freely?
The Linux Terminal Server Project is nice but I think it is a bit too complicated for small businesses, specially if you don't want to bother with the network configuration (other DHCP servers on the net, etc.).
So yes, I am disappointed and I needed to express openly my feelings.
Don't take this comment too negatively, it isn't, only just a bit ;-).