Re: CANNOT Get Remote X to Work -- Guru Needed

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:54 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:44 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> > > 
> > > If you want to actually get an X desktop on your client from the FC5
> > > machine, you need to enable XDMCP on the FC5 box.  Login to it and run
> > > gdmsetup to enable remote login.  You'll have to unblock port 177 on
> > > it, and you'll have to unblock port 6000 on your client.
> > 
> > Is there any reason you can't ssh to the host and run either 
> > "gnome-session" or "startkde"?  As far as I know, there isn't, so it's 
> > trivial to run an X desktop via ssh rather than XDMCP.
> 
> Launching gnome-session on a remote host clashes badly with the existing
> window manager on the local host.  While it "runs," it's not really
> functional.
I am missing something. Why do oyu need to run gnome from the remopte
machine? If you have xforwarding enabled in ssh then any X application
you run on the remote machine will appear on the local machine.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>