CANNOT Get Remote X to Work -- Guru Needed

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/18/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 old and outdated.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).
>

By the way, for future reference, cygwin is an excellent way to go if
you want X on your Windows machine.  And it's free.  See
www.cygwin.com.