----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anybody know about solaris?
> Allan Bruce wrote: > > >Hi guys, > >I am logging into a solaris workstation from Windows using SSH, and can use > >VNC tunneled to get an X desktop. I would like to send the display of > >another solaris machine back to the VNC X desktop, but dont know how. > >Usually, if I was at the machine, I would type: > >setenv DISPLAY compname:0 > >Now the VNC desktop is :1 but if I try that it still doesnt work. Does > >anybody know how to do this? (Sorry for the complete off-topicness but I > >cant find anything else to help me) > >Allan > > > I don't know how much help I can offer but here goes.... > > You setup an SSH tunnel to Sun1, fire up VNC on Windows and connect to > Sun1 where you have use of Sun1:1. No problems. > > If you were sitting at Sun1 you would type in the setenv conmmand...then > what? Are you just trying to get programs running on the local screen? > Do you want a CDE login for Sun2? What meesages do you get from Sun2 > when you try to open an xterm on Sun1:1? How do these systems sort out > xauthentication (see man xauth)? > > HTH > > Colin > (as you can tell its been a slow day here today) > > I am hoping to run Netscape on Sun2 but view it on Sun1s desktop (a VNC desktop). The error message is: Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: genesis:1 If only vnc would run on Sun2, I would be happy but for some reason it says: vncserver: unknown command even though vncserver and Xvnc are in the path and they are also in the directory I am currently in Allan _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
