On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:24 -0500, Steve Huff wrote: > On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > thanks but you are still over my head. > > > > xhost +localhost returns the same error. > > > > DisallowTCP is commented in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf > > > > The issue seems to be that gdm isn't running...is it supposed to be > > running in runlevel 3? > > > > If so...what is the right way to start it? > > > switch to runlevel 5: > > # /sbin/init 5 > > this will make gdm start. however, you may also want to create the > file /etc/X1.hosts and populate it with the hostnames or IP addresses > of the machine(s) from which you will be connecting. > > do this before you go to runlevel 5. > ---- run level 5 is a bit of a problem. There's no monitor connected and I didn't ever configure X since when I installed CentOS (the moment when I did have a monitor attached), I didn't install X. A switch to runlevel 5 doesn't seem possible without a monitor connected and configuration created for xorg. for good measure though - I did create /etc/X1.hosts per advice and populated with... localhost fqdn and it made no difference. Thanks Craig