CANNOT Get Remote X to Work -- Guru Needed

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/21/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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?

I don't, but the OP asked specifically for help in "[pulling] up [his]
FC5 server's desktop" onto a Windows-based X server.