When doing system administration it is often more convenient to connect to a server through some sort of remote connection setup rather than having to sit at a console in a datacenter. The comfort of one’s office (or living-room) is often far superior in terms of noise and temperature than the environs of the datacenter itself.
When setting up the RHEL5 server this week here at VSU, I was forced to use the Sun iLOM connection to do the initial install of the server. While I generally use command-line only tools, the ease of use one gains from the GUI tools can often make some tasks much simpler. Towards this end I decided to setup the server and my client to allow XDMCP sessions so that I could have full access to the GUI when necessary.
On the server there are a couple of things that you need to configure in order to make this workFirew:
- Firewall ports
- GDM configuration options
On the client you will need to configure the OS X firewall, as well as use the correct Xephyr connection syntax.
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