[K12OSN] XDCMP through an 'Internal' Firewall
Terrell Prude', Jr.
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sun Jun 13 23:15:43 UTC 2004
Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
>>Hello Gavin,
>>
>>Any particular reason why you need to forward XDMCP through a firewall?
>>Usually, X11 is never run across the Internet for security reasons; it's
>>generally kept to the trusted network.
>>
>>
>
>Yes I know & understand the security issues, but I didn't say that
>the clients will be going over the internet, I just said trough a
>firewall...
>the firewall is 1 of a few internal network firewalls that allow us to
>control the flow of data that bit better on our network... All of the
>networks are 'Trusted' as they are all part of our very large network...
>The firewall in question is one of the firewalls that controls data across
>from 1 campus to the other..
>I hope that helps...
>
Oh, OK. When you said "through a firewall", I just figured you meant
across the Internet. My mistake. Sounds like you've got a pretty
complex setup there! :-)
What I would do is get the IP address of your thin client and look to
see what traffic is attempting to pass through the firewall to/from that
IP address. Then, when it shows up at the firewall (getting blocked, I
presume), you can just open up that type of traffic, and you should be
good to go. How far are your clients getting in the boot process?
--TP
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