Remote X session (WinXP -> Fedora Core 1)

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/23/2004 9:04 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

Dunno. I'll try it when I get home tonight. But doesn't remote X come IN 
on port 177 and return on 6000? That's what I think I read in the 
gdm.conf file. Not sure whether the inability to telnet to 6000 would be 
an indication of a problem. But, as I said, I'll try it.

My current theory is that since I'm using my Linksys router as the 
gateway, I need to forward port 177 to my FC1 server. I didn't think 
that was necessary for local network traffic, but I guess that might be 
the case...

FWIW, I ran 'tcpdump -i etho|grep 177' on the FC1 box and nothing showed.

Thanks,
Tim