Stupid X-forwarding pop quiz.

[theweaselking]

I have a Ubuntu 6.06 server.

I have a bunch of XP desktops.

I want to allow graphical login from the XP desktops to the Ubuntu server.

Enabling X forwarding through SSH on the server, then launching Cygwin's XWin to query the server? That gets me a login page, and it takes username and password, but the desktop never appears. What am I missing?

(Bonus difficulty: Enabling xdmcp and setting xinetd to launch an Xvnc server session upon receiving a VNC connection attempt? That's not working, despite IDENTICAL SETTINGS on a different Ubuntu 6.06 box working just fine. The log keeps complaining that setuid is prohibited.)

EDIT: Okay, I tell a lie, a desktop comes up eventually. Like, 20 minutes later. And it doesn't have anything except the Computer and Trash icons yet. This is not acceptable.

Edit2: Oh bloody hell, who stuck "groups=yes" as a fucking requirement into the xinetd server definition? Whoever you are, I hate you and want you to die right now, just so you know.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Do the PC's need to be running windows when they get this acess? because running tlsp and network booting would do this as well.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

ltsp, even.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes. It, in fact, needs to duplicate Windows Remote Desktop into a Server 2K3 machine as much as possible.

So far, VNC client contacts server, server launches a VNC server session with an XDMCP login and connects it to the client is the best solution I've got. I also should be able to tunnel it through SSH, although since the traffic is never going across and untrusted network I'm not really worried about it.