Booyo Linux 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
    Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and set the Enable entry to 1 in the [xdmcp] section as following.

    [xdmcp]
    Enable=1

2. Firewall (TCP/UDP Ports) Configuration

  • 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.


3. Reboot the remote host and start Xmanager

# init 3; init 5