Virtual Brain/Linux/Remote X11 A project since long, remote X11 should be tried out now. (use my laptop to connect to my linux-box that has got a broken CRT monitor) I use Cygwin as Unix shell on my windows box anyway, this comes along with an XServer, so that's fine. Good links to start with: - http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html - http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ ---- Some step-by-step what was necessary for me: On the linux box: - no firewall in my intranet, so my linux box shouldn't lock me out - /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs: change "daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon" to "daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon -port 7100" - /etc/X11/fs/config: comment out "#no-listen = tcp" - "service xfs restart" -> tried "telnet 7100" from my laptop, connects. - "ps -ef" shows that gdm is running (Fedora Core 2) => do the gdm specific configs - /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf [xdmp] section: change Enable=false to Enable=true and uncomment the Port=177 line (maybe not even necessary) - /etc/inittab: runlevel 5 is already set as I used X earlier on on the linux box. Line is "id:5:initdefault:" - reboot (well there's a more elegant way to restart the necessary services, someone maybe tells me) On the windows laptop: - It appears that this was enough, as a "XWin.exe :0 -query linux_box_hostname" was enough to present a nice X-login window to me :-) cooool! My old X-Session settings are still there, everythings works smoothely - how nice! And not even that big of a trick :-) {image:Virtual Brain/Linux/Remote X11/cygwinx.gif} 2005-11-04 16:09:40.869 2005-11-04 16:07:41.419 Fri Nov 04 16:09:04 CET 2005