On Fri, February 6, 2009 16:24, Aaron Epps wrote: > All the time, it's called SSH ;-) The real question is why do you want a > graphical interface to your remote OpenSolaris box? If it's to run the GUI > config tools like packagemanager/etc just displaying them back to your Mac > using X. For example, if I want to connect to an OpenSolaris server with > the IP address 192.168.1.100 I'd open up a terminal on my Mac and type the > following... > > ssh -X myusername at 192.168.1.100 > > Once I've logged in via ssh, any GUI utilities that I launch will display > back to my Mac; for example, try typing pfexec packagemanager and you > should see the OpenSolaris PackageManager GUI display on your Mac.
I'm not on a Mac, but I've got SSH remote X working. However, when I try to run something *as root* in GUI on the remote system (whether Solaris or Linux), it fails. What's up with that? I've googled around a lot, but all the keywords are practically generic, and I haven't found the solution yet. (My desktop is Windows XP, with Xming X server. ) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
