On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:54 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:44 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > J. K. Cliburn wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > Is there any reason you can't ssh to the host and run either > > "gnome-session" or "startkde"? As far as I know, there isn't, so it's > > trivial to run an X desktop via ssh rather than XDMCP. > > Launching gnome-session on a remote host clashes badly with the existing > window manager on the local host. While it "runs," it's not really > functional. I am missing something. Why do oyu need to run gnome from the remopte machine? If you have xforwarding enabled in ssh then any X application you run on the remote machine will appear on the local machine. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
