On 4/21/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? I don't, but the OP asked specifically for help in "[pulling] up [his] FC5 server's desktop" onto a Windows-based X server.
