Re: redirecting X display

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

> Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction to debug this, as I 
> am somewhat stumped, with what is essentially a simple problem.

by default the X config doesn't listen to tcp

look in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

around these lines:
# If true this will basically append -nolisten tcp to every X 

and change the setting to listen to tcp.

(This is done for security reasons; to not listen by default)