Debian 3.1(Sarge) XDMCP Configuration

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Last updated: Apr 13, 2021 by Netsarang Support

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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