Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

XDMCP Indirect Requests from Network Display

When you configure your X terminal to use XDMCP indirect mode, you tell your X terminal the host name of the login server host. When the X terminal is booted, it will contact the login server, and the login server will present a list, through a chooser screen, of other login server hosts on the network. From this list, the user can select a host, and that host will display a login screen on the user's X terminal. See your X terminal documentation for information describing how to configure your X terminal for XDMCP indirect mode.

As with direct mode, most X servers support the -indirect option, which causes your X server to contact the login server in XDMCP indirect mode.