[Wylug-discuss] How to connect to X-server

[Paul Branston]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:17:54AM +0100, Peter Holtwick wrote:
> Hello, I need a quick hint:
>
> At work I wanted to introduce Linux, because they have got loads of Sun
> boxes but only Windows to administer them (with a Win-X-server sometimes).
>
> I booted a SuSE Live-CD and everything was fine, they got impressed, but
> to start xclock on Sun and having the output on Linux didn't work. Display
> variable was set to <IP>:0, I entered xhost, but the app kept complaining
> 'can not connect'.
>
> uname -a says: SunOS liveux26 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc
> SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
>
> Did I something wrong? I couldn't try much in this presentation
> unfortunately..
>

Peter,

I would have tried the DISPLAY variable as <linuxIP>:0.0
Did you do the xhost command on the linux box as "xhost +<sunboxIP>"

I look after Sun boxes and normally have no trouble mapping X displays
to linux or *BSD.

Paul

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