Re: Starting X on remote hosts (Solaris)
Re: Starting X on remote hosts (Solaris)
- Subject: Re: Starting X on remote hosts (Solaris)
- From: "Barto, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:14:19 -0800
- Thread-topic: Starting X on remote hosts (Solaris)
On 11/9/07 8:56 AM, "Tim Jenness" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Barto, David wrote:
>
>> While I've been having problems getting ssh to work from my Mac to a Solaris
>> box (running Solaris 9), I just tried it running to a Linux (Ubuntu) box.
>>
>> Result: Ubuntu 1, Solaris 0
>>
>> X started properly when I ran 'ssh -x <me>@<ubuntu>' and my display was set
>
> -X (-x disables forwarding)
>
>> to 'localhost:10.0'. Starting an Xterm worked as expected.
>>
>> Something with Solaris is broken in some strange way. I'll have to spend
>> some time on it. Others (Tim Jenness) have had Solaris 8 work for them.
>
> Ths solaris system was running openSSH.
>
My typo not withstanding (I did use -X), Ubuntu worked. I'm uncertain of the
version of SSH running on the Solaris 9 system.
I've got a Solaris 8 system, though it doesn't have ssh installed on it.
Sad that all this was not required in Tiger.
David
--
"Windows is a poorly debugged device driver loader"
---Marc Andreessen
David Barto
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