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Sunday, July 04, 2004

How to setup XDMCP connection on Fedora core 2

1. On a shell, run gdmsetup
2. Select XDMCP menu, click enable XDMCP.
Done.

Or you can edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf to change Enable to true
[xdmcp]
Enable=true

Besides, you can turn on port 177
Port=177

Saturday, July 03, 2004

How to run X locally/remotely on cygwin/X

* select X packages
* select openSSH under net
* run cygwin, wait till shell pop up.
* cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* startx
* or you under window, double click startxwin.bat
* x-window will pop up locally.
--run the following command on locally xterm.
ssh -Y -f -l username machinename xterm

an Xterm will be popping up displaying remote machine.
From there you can run other applications.