[lug] remote clients can't display on FC3/KRUD

[rm at fabula.de]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:45:00PM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 18:19 -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> > By default the X11 servers accept only UDP connections...remote machines 
> > use TCP. You have to turn on the TCP option in
> > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> > There is a line there, DisallowTCP=true. Kind of misleading, as not 
> > having this parameter still disallows TCP. Change it to DisallowTCP=false.
> 
> That's the ticket.  Thanks D. I can now run GIMP on the server and
> display it on the laptop to continue working on my next book.
> Woohoo!  :-)

Just a small correction: once tcp/ip connections are disabled (as they are
indeed on most security aware distros) the X server only listens on a local
(Unix) socket (normally under /tmp/.X11-unix/....). AFAIK it's _not_ possible
to use udp/ip for X connections.

 Cheers Ralf Mattes

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