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 11:15:48 -0800
- Thread-topic: Starting X on remote hosts (Solaris)
On 11/9/07 9:57 AM, "Don MacQueen" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Have you tried variations like:
>
> ssh -l remoteusername -f -Y remote.host.name xterm -bg
> darkslategray3 -title whatever
>
> (the -bg and -title are obviously optional)
>
> -Don
>
Still failed. Looks like something in our SSH configuration on Solaris 9 is
broken. I'm trying to install OpenSSH on the Solaris 8 box right now.
David
> At 9:14 AM -0800 11/9/07, Barto, David wrote:
>> 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
>> email@hidden
>> http://www.kdbarto.org
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David Barto
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