On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Stewart wrote: > Recently, I loaded RH 8.0; this is the downloaded > version. Frequently, I access a Sun Solaris 2.8 > system via telnet, and use the command line for > everything, however, I would like to use a Solaris > package that has a graphical front end. I use > commands that work between Solaris systems, but don't > work between Linux and Solaris. These commands are: > > Linux: xhost +sol28 (sol28 is the Solaris system) > Linux: telnet sol28 > sol28: setenv DISPLAY (ip address):0.0 > sol28: (sol28 program name) > > The (sol28 program name) doesn't support the -display > option. Instead of getting the graphical output, as I > do between Sun systems, I see "Unable to open X > display". I created a Linux user and password to > match the sol28 user/password, but I don't know what > else to try. > > Any thoughts anybody?
Just tried this very thing out, and it worked. I suspect that Linux or sol28 don't know about each other by hostname. Try it with ip addresses to test. Of course, if you had ssh installed on the Sun host this would be a trivial problem using x-forwarding. Checkout www.sunfreeware.com for pkg format downloads. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
