[Wylug-help] Sun and Linux ... Help please

[Dave Whiteley]

Hello Folks,

I have inherited the administration of a Sun, running Solaris (without
the option of changing its OS).  It does not have a keyboard and
screen attached, but is running, and I can telnet and ssh in to it
from my Linux box.

I believe that I should be using the "admintool" to manage users
etc. on the Sun. When I try to run it I deduce that it is an X
application.

Accordingly, I do:-

   DISPLAY=mybox:0.0; export DISPLAY
   admintool

but I get
   Error: Can't open display: mybox:0.0

I tweak my Linux box
    ssh_config file to allow X forwarding from the sun box,
and on the SUN
   I check that ssh forwarding is "yes" in its sshd_config,
   and to my linux box in ssh_config.

But I still get

   Error: Can't open display: mybox:0.0

when I try to run admintool.

I connect, using ssh, to other Linux boxes, and can run X applications
happily from them.

Please can someone spot my deliberate mistake.

Dave

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Dave Whiteley
d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk
Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT,  UK