OpenSUSE 10.x, 11.0, Suse 8, 9, 10 and Suse Enterprise Server 9.x, 10.x XDMCP Configuration
1. Display manager configuration
Change runlevel to 5
Open/etc/inittab and set the initial runlevel to 5 as following:id:5:initdefault:
Configure GDM
If you are using kdm, skip this section and go to 'Configure KDM' section below.
Open the following GDM configuration file and set Enable to true in the [xdmcp] section and DisallowTCP to false in the [security] section:
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (Suse 8, 9, 10, Suse Enterprise Server 9.x, 10.x)
/etc/gdm/custom.conf (OpenSuse 10.x, 11.0. If the file does not exists, create one)[xdmcp] Enable=1 [security] DisallowTCP=false
Configure KDM
If you are using gdm, you can skip this step.
Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and remove the # character in front of the line:#* #any host can get a login window ==> * #any host can get a login window
Then, find the [xdmcp] section in the /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file and set Enable to true like the following example:[xdmcp] Enable=true
2. Reboot the remote host
# init 3; init 5
3. Firewall (TCP/UDP Ports) Configuration and start Xmanager
- Open UDP port 177 from the PC to the remote host direction.
- Open incoming TCP ports 6000~6010 from the remote host to your PC.