On 4/24/06, Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > > > > And what do you type at the shell prompt to actually start the X session > > > at the remote end and display it locally ? > > > > gnome-session > > That gives me all sorts of error messages and stuff at the remote end > because I am runnning my normal Gnome window manager at the local end > and it doesn't want to have two gnome sessions. > > I find that it will run an individual task (xterm, ooffice, etc.) fine, > but one of the reasons I wanted this was to be able to do remote system > admin using the various drop-down menus and service lists that are a part > of the standard Gnome session/desktop. > > Any ideas ? There was a thread posted here within the last week, in response to which I detailed the steps for activating xdmcp across 2 FC5 hosts. Search the archive and I'm sure you'll find it.