Fedora Core 1~6 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
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (Fedora Core 4 and prior releases)
/etc/gdm/custom.conf (Fedoar Core 5 and later releases)
and set the Enable to 1 in the [xdmcp] section and DisallowTCP to false in the [security] section like the following example:[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 /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and set the Enable entry to true in the [xdmcp] section as following.[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.