help with Xlib

[shuff at vecna.org (Steve Huff)]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Craig White wrote:

> thanks but you are still over my head.
>
> xhost +localhost returns the same error.
>
> DisallowTCP is commented in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
>
> The issue seems to be that gdm isn't running...is it supposed to be
> running in runlevel 3?
>
> If so...what is the right way to start it?


switch to runlevel 5:

# /sbin/init 5

this will make gdm start.  however, you may also want to create the  
file /etc/X1.hosts and populate it with the hostnames or IP addresses  
of the machine(s) from which you will be connecting.

do this before you go to runlevel 5.

-steve

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