Alternnative for Xmanager in Ubuntu: Remmina

How to configure Remmina for remote login into using XDMCP protocol

1. Install Remmina Client from software centre.
2. Install install remmina-plugin-xdmcp plugin.
3. Restart the machine
4. Start Remmina
5. Now from New select the XDMCP from dropbox.

For XDMCP connection to Ubuntu

1. XDM Configuration

1. Change runlevel to 5 Open/etc/inittab and set the initial runlevel to 5 as following: id:5:initdefault: 2. Enable XDMCP  For GDM: Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and set the Enable entry to 1 in the [xdmcp] section as following. [xdmcp] Enable=1 Open /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and set the DisallowTCP entry to false in the [security] section as following. [security] DisallowTCP=false

2. Firewall (TCP/UDP Ports) Configuration

Open UDP port 177 from the PC to the remote host direction. Open incoming TCP ports 6000~6010 from the remote host to your PC.

3. Reboot the remote host and start Xmanager

# init 3; init 5