I had to open 512 through our firewall when I was testing X at
home. The result of that test is:
1) It's really cool.
2) It's really, really slow.
3) Don't waste your time.
4) VNC is so much faster.
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At 08:46 AM 08/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>trying to secure a slackware 7.1/2.2.16 box that needs to act
as an
>x-server. anyone know what ports need to be open to allow
>this? currently opened 5000-6000, 496XX (from netstat) and 177
but still
>blocking the server somehow (shows up on other machines when
firewall is
>down and not when it is up).
Hmm, no idea. A look at /etc/services showed me the 177 port
for sure.
> we don't want to push x through ssh since the
>romote clients are windows running Xwin32 on machines required
to run ONLY
>windows (thus no small linux partition).
You can run SSH under windows. there are both pay and free
versions.
Running SSH is HIGHLY recommended, since X is insecure.
>Any all suggestions are appreciated.
You look at VNC as another option? VNC has benefits and
disadvantages
different from X, advantage include stateless
(disconnect/reconnect),
simple ports (5900+), full desktop, and free ($$ and GPL).
>TIA,
>/frank
>frank(at)kyk.als.orst.edu
