Mandrake 9.1, 10 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:
Conifgure GDM (For Mandrake 9 only)
If you are using kdm, skip this section and go to 'Configure KDM' section below.
Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and set Enable to 1 in the [xdmcp] section and DisallowTCP to false in the [security] section as following.[xdmcp] Enable=1 [security] DisallowTCP=false
Configure KDM
If you are using gdm, you can skip this step.
1. Open /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config comment out the "requestPort" option as following:DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 ==> !DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
2. Open /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and remove the initial "#" character for the following line:#* #any host can get a login window ==> * #any host can get a login window
3. Open /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and set the Enable entry to true in the [xdmcp] section as following.[xdmcp] Enable=true
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