I'm trying to connect to a linux machine with kdm and I'm having trouble. My configurations are:
linux: Mandrake 9.2 KDE ssh configured with X11Forwarding Windows XP: ICF disabled Latest Cygwin X (updated daily) Linksys Firewall/gateway/hub - I've successfully configured kdm for remote access and tested it from a cygwin host on the linux local lan. - I've correctly configured ssh (I don't think this matters) and can connect from the windows machine through the firewall to the remote host and can use ssh -X successfully. I realize this isn't exact relevant, but you never know what someone will ask about. - The firewall is doing nat (I don't know if this is what all firewalls do), so I have a linksys_ip and a windows_ip. - I've configured my local firewall to pass ports 6000-6020 through to my windows host. - I've tried these configurations unsuccessfully. With these I get no error, but no login window. XWin -query $remote_ip XWin -query $remote_ip -from $windows_ip XWin -query $remote_ip -clipboard -from $windows_ip With these I get the same error: XWin -query $remote_ip -from $linksys_ip XWin -query $remote_ip -clipboard -from $linksys_ip XWin -query $remote_ip -fp tcp/$remote_ip:7100 -clipboard -from $linksys_ip _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root Fatal server error: Xserver: failed to bind to -from address: 24.10.217.117 With this I get a more hopeful error: XWin -query $remote_ip -fp tcp/$remote_ip:7100 -clipboard -from $windows_ip Could not init font path element tcp/207.88.121.38:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I could be I'm not running a font server on port 7100, or that the port is inaccessible for some reason. I've read many of the posting in the archives and the faq. The faq says none of this will work through a firewall, but maybe it's out of date. I've noticed other posting from people who may have gotten this to work? Or have I misread them? Am I totally off-base? Is there any hope getting kdm through my firewall? Suggestions? BTW, Thanks for Cgywin and the XFree86 port! I've been using it for year with great success. Thanks, Robert Mecklenburg