Remote X session (WinXP -> Fedora Core 1)

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I'm trying to connect a Windows XP laptop to my fedora core 1 box via
> X-Win32, a vnc-like software product for Windows which I've been using
> to connect to my redhat 7x server at work. But I'm not having any luck.
>
> Fedora Core uses gdm by default, so I've edited /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf so
> that under the [xdmcp] section I have Enable=true.
> I've edited /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config so that I've commented out the line:
> #DisplayManager.requestPort:    0
> I've edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess so that
> *	CHOOSER BROADCAST
> is not commented out.
>
> Thinking that the problem may be firewall related, I killed all my
> iptables firewall rules, but I still can't get a login connection.
>
> xdmcp seems to be workeng when I'm local to the fedora core box ('X :1
> -query localhost' works.)
>
> Anybody care to offer a suggestion on getting this to work?

Can you telnet to port 6000 ?

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