Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-19 Thread John Cooper
On 19/10/10 09:27, Simon O'Riordan wrote: John, Ran chkrootkit - had a lot of warnings about one application in particular - Eclipse. Otherwise clean. I guess eclipse is just a messy programme. Simono Yes, you will get some hidden directory warnings like Eclipse, it doesn't know about but if

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-18 Thread John Cooper
On 18/10/10 18:06, Tim wrote: On Monday 18 October 2010 15:30:49 John Cooper wrote: On 13/10/10 11:08, John Cooper wrote: On 13/10/10 09:38, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:26:30 +0100, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: A very secure internal network can still be

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-13 Thread John Cooper
On 13/10/10 09:38, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:26:30 +0100, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: A very secure internal network can still be snooped by a very secure network employee and find your passwords! It really is bad practice/lazy. Depending on the size of

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-12 Thread John Cooper
On 12/10/10 17:16, Terry Coles wrote: What we have decided to do is to install cygwin on a little used server on the internal network and use terminal services to get to it via VPN. The server isn't running a firewall and everything will be inside our secure netork, so we think it will work.

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010, John Cooper wrote: Great news. Sounds like a good plan to use the internal network server. Although I don't recommend using telnet to logon (unencrypted, password in clear text), it is great for diagnostics, like telnet ipaddress We're not too worried about using

[Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
  Hi,   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.   What is the simplest way to do this?  I was

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread Robert Bronsdon
Presuming you have X installed on the SparcStation??? If not then this is your first step. Is there a reason you cannot run a VNC or RDP server on the SparcStation? If you absolutely _have_ to create an actual remote X instance from the SparcStation then your going to have to use something

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, 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. What is the simplest way to do this? 

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread David Wilkinson
On 11/10/10 14:18, Ralph Corderoy wrote: What is the simplest way to do this? I was initially advised to try PuTTY, which was just as good at getting me into a shell as telnet, but I couldn't get it to give me a graphical environment. PuTTY won't help the X window from your client on the

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
    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,

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, 6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0 7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY ... 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

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
    On 11 October 2010 at 15:04 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: Hi Terry, 6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0 7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY ... I'm OK until I get to step 6, when I get a 'Command not recognised'

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
    On 11 October 2010 at 15:50 John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: On 11/10/10 15:23, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: Excellent!  A step forward.  Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an export command in the csh.  According to the man page it is available in sh and ksh, but

Re: [Dorset] OT (ish): Accessing a SparcStation remotely with a graphical interface from a Windows Box

2010-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, 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