On 11 October 2010 at 14:18 Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > We need to do some work with our SparcStation again, but this time > > remotely from a windows machine. I can telnet to it and carry out the > > usual shell type activities, but one or two things we need to do with > > it, launch a dialog box under X. > > > > I was then told to try cygwin, which (eventually) gave me a graphical > > environment, but so far has defied my attempts to connect. OK. I've fixed that. I've found my way to the right documentation and I hadn't got inetutils installed. > If you had an X server running on your Windows PC then you could set > your DISPLAY environment variable to an "appropriate value" at the shell > prompt on the SparcStation before you run your program. That would tell > all X clients that the X server to connect to is on the Windows PC. I have cygwin's X server running and I know it is working because I have loaded and run a window manager. > http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ is one Windows X server, and > I tend to use xclock(1) as a simple test X client. You may want to make > sure it will display OK when sitting at the SparcStation's screen before > using it to test connecting to a remote X server. X is running on the SparcStation and is used for a number of things, including the dialog boxes used for our scripts. > You've still got to sort out stuff like the X server allowing > connections from the SparcStation, and the value of DISPLAY. It's > normally "hostname:0" but that assumes the Windows PC's IP address is > resolvable as "hostname" on the SparcStation. You could put its IP > address in instead. And the ":0" may need to be something else, > depending on what port Xming listens. This is the bit I need to get sorted. The cygwin docs say: <Start snippet> On yourWindows machine: 1. Make sure you have the inetutils package installed. 2. Launch Cygwin/X 3. In an X terminal type /usr/bin/xhost remote_hostname_or_ip_address 4. In an X terminal type /usr/bin/telnet remote_hostname_or_ip_address. Use the explicit path to ensure that Cygwin’s telnet is run instead of Microsoft’s telnet; Microsoft’s telnet will crash on startup when run from Cygwin/X. 5. Login to your remote machine via your telnet session 6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0 7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY 8. You can now launch remote X clients in your telnet session, for example, xterm& will launch an xterm running on your remote host that will display on your Cygwin/X screen. 9. Launch other remote clients in the same manner; I recommend starting the remote clients in the background, by appending & to the command name, so that you don’t have to open several telnet sessions. <End snippet> I'm OK until I get to step 6, when I get a 'Command not recognised' error. Is sending that command via the telnet session causing the problem or am I missing something else? > Alternatives include having the SparcStation export its screen over > something like VNC, but I don't know if it can do that easily out of the > box. Ralph, if you don't know how to do that, then I don't stand chance :-) Terry -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
