Remote X displays from Solaris

[Bluecrack]

I'm running Redhat 7.1 on my box a work and I am hoping to be able to run remote X sessions to a Solaris 8 server. I can successfully do it if I kill my X server and run

X -query <servername>

However I'd really like to be able to have my X server up and run the remote X session to the Solaris box. Does anyone know how I can do this?

thanks
Bluecrack

 

[ianf]

For each individual X-based program you can define in your environment where the GUI is displayed.
depending on the shell you are using either;
> export DISPLAY=IP:0.0
or
> setenv DISPLAY IP:0.0

then
> ./program &

This will run the GUI in the background on your local box and send it's display to a remote IP. Ian

&quot;IF&quot; is not a word it's a way of life

 

[Bluecrack]

ianf,

Thanks for the info. I have it working but not quite the way I was expecting it to work. Exporting the display on Solaris is pretty straighforward and works fine. The more complicated part is configuring Linux to accept the remote connection. I actually had to start a seperate instance of the X server to accept remote connections. So now I can fire it all up but have to ALT-F8 to get to the Solaris windows.

Do you know how to configure Linux, specifically RedHat 7.1, to accept remote X connections on display 0?

Thanks,
Bluecrack

 

[MrTom]

if you type &quot;xhost -&quot; then the solaris box will be able to connect to your X-server. this also means that anyone else can connect to it too so if you're worried about this then look at the docs for xhost. &quot;xhost +&quot; will block any connections again.

 

[Bluecrack]

Already added the solaris server to the xhost database of authorized machines. But I still had to start X on display 1 to get a connection.

It's not that big of a deal. I was just wondering if it could be done.

Thanks,
Bluecrack

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If you mean run a complete cde session or suchlike (vs a single X app) from within XFree86, I don't think you can do this as such but you could maybe use virtual consoles to get something similar. In other words login and startx then ctl-alt-f2 to get another tty and login again then connect to solaris. Toggle the two gui sessions with ctl-alt-f7 (linux) and ctl-alt-f8 (solaris). This is just a thought - I haven't tested it.

If you were desperate you could install another linux or even windows with X-client on vmware under redhat and then connect to the solaris box from the virtual machine. See -->

http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/

Regards

 

[Bluecrack]

Thanks all. I'll still with the solaris CDE GUI on the other virtual console.

Bluecrack

 

[yingchen]

I want to use a solari machine to use matlab in a linux box, but I cannot run remote X sessions successfully. I have tried &quot;xhost +&quot; to add linux box to solari machine. I also &quot;setenv DISPLAY solari-machine:0.0&quot; for the linux machine I want to connect. After that, if I tried &quot;xterm&quot;, the command just hang on and nothing comes up.

Can you tell me what may be the problem?

thanks!