[CentOS] Help with XDMCP over SSH

Les Mikesell

lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 02:51:47 UTC 2007


Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:55 +0000, Plant, Dean wrote:
>> I am trying to get XDMCP working over SSH on CentOS 4.4 from a windoze
>> box running Cygwin/Putty
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Both commands will successfully display a X window and show the X mouse
>> pointer but not the chooser. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Perhaps your ssh tunnel isn't configured properly.  Let's see how you're
> setting up the tunnel.

Or, as an alternative you might like freenx on the server and the 
nomachine NX windows client.  It gives better response over low 
bandwidth or high latency connections and allows you to suspend a 
session and reconnect later, perhaps from a different location.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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