Need help

2008-08-21 Thread Shahed Hussain
Dear Concern, I need a help to login to a solaris machine using cygwin. As far as I know, the command x -query IP_ADDRESS should bring the window of the solaris machine in to the window machine. Can you please tell me what program has to be run in the solaris machine to enable this

Re: Need help

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Fordin
Hi, Shahed, You need to use xhost in the Windows xterm to enable remote clients (in this case, the Solaris box) to connect to the Cygwin X server. You may also need to enable localhost to connect as well. Specifically: xhost +solaris_ip xhost +localhost You could also just do an xhost