Enabling Xmanager in Red Hat 5 EL

March 4, 2010

For XDMCP connection to Red Hat 5 EL

1. XDM Configuration

1. Change runlevel to 5 Open/etc/inittab and set the initial runlevel to 5 as following: id:5:initdefault:
2. Enable XDMCP
	For GDM:
	Open /etc/gdm/custom.conf and set the Enable entry to 1 in the [xdmcp] section as following. [xdmcp] Enable=1
	For KDM:
	Open /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess and remove the initial “#” character for the following line: #* #any host can get a login window ==> * #any host can get a login window Open /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and set the Enable entry to true in the [xdmcp] section as following. [xdmcp] Enable=true

2. Firewall (TCP/UDP Ports) Configuration

Open UDP port 177 from the PC to the remote host direction.
Open incoming TCP ports 6000~6010 from the remote host to your PC.

3. Reboot the remote host and start Xmanager

# init 3; init 5

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