Guy Fraser said: > Yes FC1 does use TCP ports for X11. No, it doesn't. Just one example of many: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04180.html > XDMCP does not use TCP by default, so you can't access a remote desktop > but the display is still listening. You use xhost to control access to > the display. No, you can't. It is not listening. > If you log onto another machine and export DISPLAY=yourhost:0.0 and you > have run xhost +remoteip then when you run an X app on the remote > machine it will display on your local interface, you also need to open TCP > port 6000 in your firewall. Not unless you reconfigure it to listen. > You can also use ssh forwarding to > simplify some of the steps and encrypt the X commands between the two > machines, this does not require TCP port 6000 to be opened. Correct. > I use ssh X forwarding all the time, and it works well. I agree. -- William Hooper
