Mr Welsh, when trying to run X remotely you have do this. A = ip of machine running Xwin B = ip of machine you're trying to run remote X app on.
on machine A type "xhost +B" Now, that's not to say that the firewall isn't stopping it as well, but it's at least a place to begin. Enjoy! -ed brian welsh wrote: > > Hello *sm-ers, > > TSM Server 4.1.1.0 and AIX 4.3.3 > TSM Client 4.1.0.0 and AIX 4.3.3 > > In our environment we have multiple IP-domains seperated by a firewall. For > clients in the domain our TSM-server is in, there is no problem. For clients > in domains behind firewall there is a problem with the GUI. > > First we set the DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=ipadres:0), then > we give command 'dsm'. And after a while receive message 'Error: can't open > display'. > When we start a session with command 'dsmc', then we can do back-up and > restore without problems. > > Now, we think that it have to do with the security, set on firewall ports. > Now we like to know what kind of data-type the commands dsm and dsmc are > using, so that we can do a request to open the ports for that kind of > data-traffic, so that we can use the GUI in case of a restore. > > Thank you. > > Brian. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: > http://www.hotmail.com/nl -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ed Anderson Unix Systems Administrator University of Mississippi Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++++++++++++++++++++++++
