I have gdm running on the remote machine.
I tried logging in to a different user, not the current loged in user.
I also tried simple ssh -X and tried to start a simple program like gedit.
I got a "cannot open display" error (I made sure the DISPLAY variable is
set to my IP).
I don't have firewall on both machines as they are on an internal
network not connected to the outside world.
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Ori Idan
Oded Arbel wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 14:13 +0200, Ori Idan wrote:
I have two computers on internal network (both of them Debian unstable)
I would like to login to a remote computer using gdm.
I have enabled remote login in gdm settings of the remote computer and I
set using xhost that the other computer can access the computer.
I think you've got some things confused - in order to remote login to a
computer using gdm, you need to log in using XDMCP - you start an XDMCP
connection from your local X server to your remote login manager (gdm on
the remote computer) and ask it to run your session. xhost is used only
to control how remote X clients access your current local session, which
you only have after you login locally.
However I still can not start gdm or any other X program from the remote
computer. I allways get an error: cannot open display.
>From your description above, I assume you have a local X login, and use
SSH from a local X terminal to connect to your remote computer and try
to run gdm there ? As I said - this is not how you do remote login.
What you need to do, is to login directly to the remote computer, with
out logging in locally first. You local DM should have an option for
"remote login" - possibly under an "actions" menu. try that.
Otherwise, run X -help and look for the -query, -broadcast and -indirect
options.
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Oded
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