Remote use of XDMCP

[James Knott]

Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> It depends..
> If you have NAT between the wifi and the lan then yes you do have an issue.
> Your NAT device must "understand" XDMCP in order for this to work. If it
> does not
> 
> You have 2 alternatives; Tunnel X through SSH or disable NAT between the
> networks.

I'm using a VPN to the firewall, so there's no NAT involved that's
visible to XDCMP.  There's just plain routing, between my desktop
system, via firewall & VPN to the notebook.  Also, XDMCP doesn't work
through SSH, as it uses UDP, which SSH doesn't pass.
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