Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-22, Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the default and I can run

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: You asked to which version of CentOS I was referring: it is 6.5, the latest version. Honestly, having been involved in computing since the first days of X-Window, I can't think of another case where I observed the X server locked

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-23 Thread Roberto De Oliveira
It's very weird, I was testing with DisallowTCP = false in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf and it worked, I'm using gdm3 3.12.2-2.1 (Debian testing). Maybe a bug on gdm3 3.4? 2014-08-21 12:28 GMT-04:30 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu: I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the default and I can run remote X clients without any issues. Since switching to

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. Then why not just use ssh?

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:10:45AM -0500, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the default and I can

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
John Hasler writes: Kevin writes: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. Then why not just use ssh?

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Reco writes: Hi. On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Though ssh, vnc, remote XDMCP, Xephr are all fine for running X clients when there is interactive execution of the client by the user, it does not work in my case where there is Open Grid Scheduler batch execution. In my case, the X client of

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:09:09PM CEST, Reco recovery...@gmail.com said: Hi. On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Buchs, Kevin J. writes: Marc (and Gian hinted at) mentioned that /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc has the -nolisten tcp in it. This was as he said. However, editing the file did not stop Xorg from getting started with the very same parameter. It must be buried in another place, I fear,

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
SAS as in http://www.sas.com - confusing. When I do a nmap scan of port 6000 on my machine from the remote one it reports the Host is up, so I don't think it is blocked. I've used host name and IP address to the same effect when trying to run the X clients on the remote host. I might be

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:48:19 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Running a single application remotely is hardly a justification to running main Xorg in insecure mode. Listeniçng on tcp does NOT mean insecure mode. see Xsecurity(7) First, $ man 7 Xsecurity No manual entry for

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:28:07 -0500 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: SAS as in http://www.sas.com - confusing. When I do a nmap scan of port 6000 on my machine from the remote one it reports the Host is up, so I don't think it is blocked. I've used host name and IP address to

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:04 +0200 Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Reco writes: Running a single application remotely is hardly a justification to running main Xorg in insecure mode. If you know what you do you can set up things whith an appropriate level of security. Even

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
R == Reco recovery...@gmail.com writes: R On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:04 +0200 Gian Uberto Lauri R sa...@eng.it wrote: Reco writes: Running a single application remotely is hardly a justification to running main Xorg in insecure mode. If you know what you do you can set up things whith an

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Reco, I tried Xephr as you suggested. It seems to get around the -nolisten tcp choice. Since I will have to specify the display for the remote X client, I won't have to map the port, but can just use myhost:1.0 for DISPLAY. I got xclock -display myhost:1.0 working from myhost. Thanks for

enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my Debian 7.6 machine. I recognize the security risk. I usually run the lxde desktop. I see that gdm3 is starting the Xorg server with -nolisten tcp arguments. I read that this can be disabled by editing /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to add

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:58:27 -0500 Buchs, Kevin J. buchs.ke...@mayo.edu wrote: I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my Debian 7.6 machine. I recognize the security risk. I usually run the lxde desktop. I see that gdm3 is starting the Xorg server with -nolisten tcp

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have those options. I don't get to control how the remote client is executed as it is running in as an Open Grid Scheduler batch job. Kevin Buchs Research Computer Services Phone: 507-538-5459 Mayo Clinic 200 1st. St SW Rochester, MN 55905

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Brian Flaherty
On 08/21/2014 09:58 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my Debian 7.6 machine. I recognize the security risk. I usually run the lxde desktop. I see that gdm3 is starting the Xorg server with -nolisten tcp arguments. I read that this can be

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Brian, Thanks. I was heading in the direction of doing something like you suggested (though I am not sure how to stop gdm and not log myself out), but I thought there has to be a better way. Though it may be the case that I have other X communication problems, based on ps (showing the

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Brian Flaherty
On 08/21/2014 11:07 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: Brian, Thanks. I was heading in the direction of doing something like you suggested (though I am not sure how to stop gdm and not log myself out), On my machine, when I start the sytem, I end up at a graphical login slim, like gdm. If I keypress

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Search around for XDMCP tutorials. Your local machine needs an Xserver (like Xorg). The machine you want to connect to needs a display manager (gdm, kdm, xdm... i don't think slim supports XDMCP) and the xclients you want to run. You'll have no sound. Look into pulseaudio or jack for that. HTH,