Dear Experts,

With Redhat 5.5, I managed to configure the server to allow remote logins, and have the X Windows GUI with MobaXterm.
Using these instructions:
https://rodgersnotes.wordpress.com/2...to-redhat-5-5/

The Redhat 5.5 instructions utilized the utility: gdmsetup


From Redhat 5.5,

rpm -qa | grep -i 'gdm'
gdm-2.16.0-56.el5

which gdmsetup
/usr/sbin/gdmsetup

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However, with Redhat 6.4, there is no such utility.

which gdmsetup
/usr/bin/which: no gdmsetup in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

find / -type f -iname "gdm*" 2> /dev/null

/usr/bin/gdmflexiserver
/usr/bin/gdm-screenshot
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary
/usr/sbin/gdm
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orca/scripts/apps/gdmlogin.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orca/scripts/apps/gdmlogin.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/orca/scripts/apps/gdmlogin.py
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/gdm.conf
/etc/pam.d/gdm-password
/etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint
/etc/pam.d/gdm-smartcard
/etc/pam.d/gdm
/etc/gdm/gdm.schemas
/etc/gconf/schemas/gdm-simple-greeter.schemas


rpm -qa | grep -i "gdm" | sort

gdm-2.30.4-39.0.1.el6.x86_64
gdm-libs-2.30.4-39.0.1.el6.x86_64
gdm-plugin-fingerprint-2.30.4-39.0.1.el6.x86_64
gdm-plugin-smartcard-2.30.4-39.0.1.el6.x86_64
gdm-user-switch-applet-2.30.4-39.0.1.el6.x86_64
plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.8.3-27.0.1.el6.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-14.el6_3.x86_64



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So far, I can only ssh login and get a character terminal.

In Redhat 6.4, what is the secret to get XWindows with Mobaxterm?

Thanks a lot!

If you are happy to use ssh for logins you can use it with the "-X" option. You will get a cli, but you can execute xwindows applications. Alternatively you can run something like tigervnc.

Gdm-setup is no longer packaged with gnome as i understand. So therefor no more utility.

You will have to find the booleans in the respective configuration files and toggle them from there

I don't know anything about Mobaxterm but I've been known to use ssh -X -Y remoteuser@remotehost

I believe there are security risks involved with enabling X11 fwding, so investigate what you're doing and where you're connecting before you use it.

cheers

Thanks for responding.

From Mobaxterm, do you know then how I could:
ssh -X -Y remoteuser@remotehost

??

Thanks a lot!

I did some more work on it.


From Mobaxterm on Windows, ssh to Redhat 6.5

root@192.168.2.201's password:
Last login: Mon Nov 11 21:01:30 2013 from 192.168.2.107


gedit &
[1] 2922
root@/home/notes/2013# Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "localhost:10.0".


In my Windows laptop, the gedit program opens, that will save to the Redhat 6.4 server.



What I'd really like, is a session to the Redhat server, that
emulates the desktop when I log in directly on the server.

Any ideas on how to do that?

Thanks a lot!

Yes, if you use something like tiger vnc you can get what you are after, but it does not emulate the desktop, it allows directly controlling it remotely.

I do use it for some function but not very often. Just make sure that if you do run it remotely you secure it with a vpn and strict firewall rules.

You really don't want it easily reachable from the public.