CANNOT Get Remote X to Work -- Guru Needed

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/18/06, Bill Polhemus <bill at polhemus.cc> wrote:
> Most of the how-tos and other such information available on the 'net are
> old and outdated.
>
> I last had this working ca. FC3. I am using the WinAxE X-Window client
> (http://www.labf.com) on Windows XP, and trying to pull up my FC5 server's
> desktop from there. I just can't get the connection.
>
> I have the client software on the Windows XP box configured as shown on
> LabF's tutorials page, but when it comes to editing the various (and
> sundry!) config files on my FC5 server, I'm not sure I have even found
> them all.
>
> Is anyone doing this now? What advice can you give me?
>
> Sorry I am not more specific; there are too many parts to this puzzle.
> I'll answer questions as best I can, however.

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.

If, on the other hand, you want to simply ssh in to your FC5 system
and launch X applications for displaying on your client (without the
whole desktop), enable X forwarding in your FC5 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file, then restart sshd (service sshd restart).