Greetings -
My objective is to get a full Gnome GUI console display to show in an Xming
window on my Win7 box. I do a similar thing with my Raspberry Pi so that it
operates headless with just the power and network cord attached. My CentOS
6 box and the Win7 box are on the same network within my office LAN behind a
good firewall. For various reasons that I won't go into I am unable to
combine them into a single box using KVM, so I would at least like to be
able to display my CentOS Gnome GUI within an Xming window on my Win7 box.
And I like the way that Xming works, so I would rather not switch to
something like X2Go as I wasn't too keen on it when I last tried it.
I have done plenty of research on the web that describes how to do this, but
I must be missing something. I have the following things configured on the
CentOS 6 box.
/etc/gdm/custom.conf file
[security]
DisallowTCP=false
AllowRemoteRoot=true
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalHost yes
I start Xming on the Win7 box with the basic parameters. Xming.exe
:0 -resize -clipboard (one window is default)
Putty has X11 Forwarding enabled.
After logging into the CentOS box via Putty I can invoke a single program,
such as Gedit and it will display on the Xming window, but I can not seem to
get the entire Gnome GUI display manager. On my Raspberry Pi, once logged
in through Putty I just type "startlxde" at the command prompt to get the
entire display. But the Pi is a Debian based system running a different
display manager, so I don't know what would be comparable for CentOS 6, and
whether additional configuration is needed.
I have tried all the basic troubleshooting actions. I have disabled the
firewalls on both the CentOS 6 and Win7 boxes, and I have changed SELinux to
permissive mode. None of these changes made any difference, I could still
display Gedit but not the entire Gnome GUI display manager. So I figure
there must be something else I need to do that I am not finding in all my
Google searches. Can someone clue me in please. Thanks.
Jeff Boyce
Meridian Environmental
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