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Re: enabling remote X Window sessions



On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:28:07 -0500
"Buchs, Kevin J." <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu> wrote:

> SAS as in http://www.sas.com - confusing.
> 
> When I do a nmap scan of port 6000 on my machine from the remote one it 
> reports the Host is up, so I don't think it is blocked. I've used host 
> name and IP address to the same effect when trying to run the X clients 
> on the remote host.

Try it this way:

1) Run (should listen tcp:6001)

Xephyr :1

2) Set up port redirection:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 6001 \
-j REDIRECT --to-ports 6000


> I did find several of the executables in /usr/lib/gdm3/ have strings of 
> "-nolisten" and "tcp" as well as other tell-tale evidence that suggest 
> the parameter may be hard-coded. I might have to dig into the source next.

Have you considered replacing gdm3 with something with more
configuration options? Like lightdm, for example.

Reco


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