CANNOT Get Remote X to Work -- Guru Needed

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Apr 20 19:44:35 UTC 2006


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.




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