Re: Accessing Solaris and application
Re: Accessing Solaris and application
- Subject: Re: Accessing Solaris and application
- From: Owen Saxton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:45:11 -0700
As others have pointed out, tunnelling X through ssh is the more secure
(and convenient) way to proceed. But if you need to connect via telnet
and set the DISPLAY environment variable yourself, you also need to open
your firewall to allow the X connection to be made back to your machine.
The port number used is 6000 plus the display number (0 in your case).
-- Owen
--On Friday, May 27, 2005 8:06 AM -0400 "Jean M. Feuillet"
<email@hidden> wrote:
I want to connect from my iMac G5 to a Solaris box running an X11
application I need to use. I loaded X11, fink and other apps on the
iMac. When I load X11 I get an xterm window where I type: xhost + to
give access to the Solaris device. Then I telnet to it and once logged
in I type: export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0 where xxx is the IP
address I retrieved from the server. Then I type the name of the
application. Nothing happens.
I followed the directions in the O'Reilly's book about Unix, but I may
have missed something. Can you help me get started?
I connect to the Solaris box via the Cisco VPN and on the iMac, I have
the firewall turned ON. I'm using Tiger.1
Best regards,
Jean M. ('Jay') Feuillet
954-294-5771
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