Wow.
>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 9:47 AM, in message
<c4b770890609270647h43b6851aof1eac6fe359468fa@mail.gmail.com>, "Keith
Lelacheur" <themercuryman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello sluggers,
>
> I am a little outside of my element with fedora and am running into a
> problem getting a fresh install to allow me to enable the XDMCP broadcast
> enabled. There are a few wrinkles that may or may not be important though.
> The main one is that this is a fedora image running on a VMWARE GSX server.
> I don't think there are any network driver or addressing issues though since
> I can ssh into the os running on the virtual machine. I have tried
> following this basic how- to as found at:
> http://my.opera.com/onyxluo/blog/show.dml/441307
> __________________-
>
> Enable XDMCP under Linux
>
> Saturday, 2. September 2006, 19:26:21
>
> Linux <http://my.opera.com/onyxluo/blog/index.dml/tag/Linux>
> *Fedora Core 5*
> If implementing a default intallation of FC5, it needs to add the xdm
> (xorg- x11- xdm) package
> into FC5 before enabling XDMCP.
>
> 1. Enable xdmcp in gdm configuration by editing the file
> "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" and set xdmcp=ture.
> 2. Set xdmcp listen in "/etc/X11/xdm/xdm- config" by comment out the line "
> DisplayManager.requestPort: 0" (add ! in the head)
> 3. Set the access control in "/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess"
> * #any host can get a login window
> OR
> 192.168.0.* #any host can get a login window
> 4. Enable xdmcp in firewall. The simplest solution is to turn off the
> firewall. Otherwise you need to edit the file "/etc/sysconfig/ipchains" with
> the following in its' head
> - A input - p udp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 177 - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 telnet - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 ssh - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 login - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 exec - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 shell - j ACCEPT
> - A input - p tcp - s 0/0 - d 0/0 7100 - j ACCEPT
>
> 5. reboot the system to run new configuration.
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> I actually turned off the firewall for the tesing purposes using "service
> iptables stop" for the purposes of this testing.
>
> After rebooting I still am not able to connect to the server using X- Win32.
> It doesn't even seem to see any remote XDMCP server out there. I did a ps
> - ef |grep - i dm to see if gdm/xdm was running and got the following output:
>
> [root@lnxdevsvr xdm]# ps - ef |grep - i dm
> root 1357 1 0 04:01 ? 00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
> root 1609 1 0 04:01 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> connections
> smmsp 1618 1 0 04:01 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> runner@01:00:00
> for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> root 2829 1 0 04:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm- binary
> root 2929 2829 0 04:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm- binary
> root 2942 2929 43 04:28 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 - audit 0
> - auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth - nolisten tcp vt7
> gdm 2962 2929 0 04:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gdmgreeter
> root 2964 1947 0 04:28 pts/1 00:00:00 grep - i dm
>
>
> I noticed this "--- nolisten tcp vt7-- " in the output that concerned me and
> didn't know if it was part of the problem I was facing.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
in SLE 10, I simply use YaST and enable the remote desktop (changes 2 settings in /etc/sysconfig), starting xdm, busting a hole in the firewall and voila..everyone can see and use a remote x terminal.
the only thing you didn't mention is actually starting xdm. I would test w/o iptables first as you did mention, but it appears that you are on the right track.
JP
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