On 2/10/07, Cris Rhea <crhea@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Message: 13 > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:30:03 -0500 (EST) > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: does simple "DISPLAY=" and "xhost +" not work anymore? > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702101328380.5643@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > i made sure both systems had their firewalling de-activated. (yes, i > know that's hysterically unsafe, but i was just trying to isolate the > problem.) > > > I think most people tunnel X connections over SSH now days - both > > for security and because the compression speeds things up. > > > > As a side benefit, if you use "ssh -Y" to make connection to the > > remote machine, you don't have to play with xhost of DISPLAY - ssh > > takes care of this for you. > > i'll give that a shot next time, but i'm still curious as to why this > didn't work in the first place. > > rday > > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Out of the box, FC6 had GDM configured to not allow TCP connections... [root@kaizen ~]# ps ax | grep gdm 2620 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 2660 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 2664 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 2667 tty7 Ss+ 1:35 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 Notice the last line--- "-nolisten tcp" is the important part. vi /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf Change the line: #DisallowTCP=true to be: DisallowTCP=false Restart GDM by rebooting or by killing ALL the GDM processes... NOTE: THIS WILL LOG YOU OFF!! When you log back in, you will see the changed process: [crhea@kaizen ~]$ ps ax | grep gdm 6605 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 6634 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 6646 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon 6651 tty7 Ss+ 0:01 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7 Viola! Redirecting your display will work as expected....
It's better to put this in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, so that an update doesn't zap your configuration changes. Regards, Chris
