Remotely Access Linux GUI From Windows

• Users running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, or Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 will need to use the GDM login manager as XDM is no longer supported

• As Linux is becoming more and more popular, today's networks have become a hybrid mesh of Windows and Linux machine

• Note: If you just want a command line access and is not interested in GUI, enable ssh in your linux machine. Then use putty from windows machine

• Firstly you need to install VNC client for windows like the UltraVNC to access the Linux machine. used under link for download it

Link :- http://www.uvnc.com/index.php

v  Edit the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add the following two entries

vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf

[security]

DisallowTCP=false

AllowRemoteRoot=true

[xdmcp]

Enable=true

v  Restart X Windows using following command

[root@racnode1 ~]# init 3

[root@racnode1 ~]# init 5

v  Export display command

export DISPLAY=ipadress:0.0

[root@racnode1 ~]# export DISPLAY=192.168.100.161:0.0

open the xmaneger passive mode on windows pc or server then open gui command by the putty like gdmsetup whatever command if you done it'll applier the linux graphic on your pc or server

Example see the bellow picture