On 4/18/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/18/06, Bill Polhemus <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 old and outdated.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.
