Ben, I sent you more complete instructions before but you obviously did not read them.
Let me level with you Ben, you are in college or you work for a college. You aren't going to make it very far if someone tells you to read something and you ignore them. Let's try this again. You have two options for running remote X Clients: 1) Remote sessions via XDMCP http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html 2) Displaying remote clients from a telnet or ssh connection: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html That is it. Everything you need to know is right there. Start off by doing a simple test of displaying a remote client via telnet (as described in 2). Next try to display a remote client via ssh. Finally, if you are feeling brave, try a remote session via XDMCP. Report what you have learned. Harold Benjamin Simmons wrote: >I am only running on a remote network. It is not exposed to the "outside world", >so I don't have any security risks that I am concerned about. If you could >provide me with more complete instructions, I would be very appreciative. > >Thank you, >Ben Simmons > >Rasjid Wilcox wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:16 pm, Benjamin Simmons wrote: >> >> >>>I am getting an error that makes me assume that I have some kind of X >>>permission wrong. >>> >>>I edited the following files: >>>/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config >>>/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess >>>/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf >>> >>> >>>Is there something else I must do? >>> >>>If I ssh to the remote machine: ssh -X -l username ipaddress >>>The current message I am getting is: >>> >>>"PAM authentication has failed cannot start the X server. Perhaps you >>>do >>>not have console ownership. . . . . . " >>> >>> >>> >>I think you are confusing two completely different ways of running X over a >>network. >> >>You can >>a) use xdm/gdm/kdm >>b) use ssh -X >> >>a) xdm/gdm/kdm is a little work to set up on the server side, but it makes >>client side configuration trivial. Once set up correctly, XWin.exe -query >><server.ip> is basically all each host needs to do. Its main downside is >>that it is inherently insecure, as all communcation between the workstation >>and the server is unencrypted, including any passwords typed into dialog >>boxes. >> >>However, I can send details on the full xdm/gdm/kdm thing if you like. >> >>b) ssh -X works best if you already have a fully running X setup on your local >>machine, and just want to run specific programs on the server. However, with >>a little bit of work it may be possible to get a scripted secure Xsession >>running, which starts up KDE or GNOME on the server rather than locally. My >>attempts to do this simply have only partly worked. As far as I can tell, >>both 'startkde' and 'gnome-session' expect to be run locally (at least on >>RH7.3), and have some trouble with the SSH connection, although they mostly >>work. The best option seems to be to comment out the 'twm' line in the >>Cygwin-XFree startxwin.sh/bat and change the '/bin/bash' in the xterm line to >>'/usr/bin/sh -X user@server' and then run either gnome or kde from the >>resulting xterm. >> >>Rasjid. >> >> > > >