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