topic Re: xhost in Operating System - Linux

xhost

kamal_9 — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:41:19 GMT

Dear All
How to get the gui screen of hpserver(hpux 11i) from an solaris9 machine.iam able to ping to both machines by using name&ip.can any one tell what daemons i hav to enable/what port i hav to enable/what command i hav to used .i hav tried some command but it didn't worked

Re: xhost

Shaikh Imran — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:01:35 GMT

Hi,

On the server whose gui is to be viewed.
say (server1)
#xhost+
On the server where gui is to be viewed:
say (server 2)
#telnet server1
#export DISPLAY=:0.0

Now run any x-command

Regards,

Re: xhost

David Child_1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:58:36 GMT

Are you refering to bringing up the entire CDE desktop on the Solaris machine?

If memory servers, I did this a couple of times in a lab a few years ago. I think this is approximately how I did it:

On Solaris "client";
1. disable starting up any window manager (e.g. just run X-windows). You should see the gray screen with a borderless xterm in the upper left corner of your screen.
2. xhost +
3. telnet to HP server
4. export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0
5. run dtlogin

David

Re: xhost

Andrew Cowan — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:04:05 GMT

For security reasons you should never run "xhost +" instead use "xhost +" to prevent others accessing your system.

You will also have problems running CDE if the remote server cannot resolve the hostname of the client. When you telnet to the host do a "who" to ensure that it knows you.