Re: Howto: ssh X11 display to Win2k

From: Jiaying Xu (jx206_at_antispam.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 11/23/03 

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:46:09 +0000

James Knott wrote:
>
> One thing I've noticed is there's a lot of contradictory documentation.
> I've seen references to use xdm, kdm and gdm. Even the kdm documentation
> at the kde site mentions files that don't exist on my system. I checked
> the gdm you mentioned. On my notebook, it exists, but not on my desktop.
> This is likely due to the fact that I installed both KDE & Gnome on my
> notebook, but only KDE on the desktop. Anyway, I tried your suggestion and
> it didn't make any difference. I guess I've have to keep digging until I
> find something, but all the conflicting documentation sure isn't making it
> easy. The problem is likely caused by some stupid little thing, but at the
> moment, I have no idea what that might be.

If you use gdm as your display manager, it is straightforward to set it
to allow XDMCP enquery. Just enter the configuration mode of gdm and
tick an option in some tag. Then restart gdm daemon. Or look through
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm/conf, just change some lines. That file is
self-explanatory. I don't think think you need extra documentations if
you follow either way above.

The another reason might be the firewall policy. I don't know the
network bwteeen both of your machines. Generally a firewall will block X
traffic as it causes security vulnerarities. This not only involves the
firewall settings on your work machine and your home machine, but also
the firewall policies in between your machines, for example that of your
company, your ISP, etc. You probably can't do much about that.

Cheers,

jx

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