At 02:17 AM 6/9/99 +0100, Tim Fletcher wrote:
>> I have been running an X Server on Windows NT 4.0 over cable modem for a
>> while. I just installed IP Masquerading on kernel 2.0.36-0.7 and the X
>> Server stopped working. Almost everything else is working (I still have to
>> get VPN/PPTP and samba printing from NT).
>>
>> I looked through the HOWTO and found that in version 1.50 X is listed as
>> one of the clients that doesn't work. In the most recent HOWTO (1.65) X is
>> not listed at all. Has a proxy been written? Is there another solution
>
>Forward port 6000 on the firewall to the X server, this can be done via
>tools such as ipportfw which needs a kernel patch that I can't remember
>were to get. (some were in oxford.ac.uk but can't find the link ATM) There
>should be details on the masq howto page of were to get the patch.
Just to make sure I'm understanding: Do I then set the DISPLAY environment
variable on the client to the firewall IP address? Does this solution keep
me from simultaneously supporting X servers on both the Linux firewall and
the NT machine? Or only X connections to the same client IP address? Or are
there no limitations at all?
thanks,
Craig
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