Trying to get Hummingbird Exceed 2008 working via SSH

[John O'Neill_6]

Hi,

I'm trialing the following Hummingbird products working..Am running fully patched windows XP Professional.

A) Exceed 2008
B) Exceed Security Tools 2008

Clean install of exceed.

When i try to connect to my HP UX 11.23 box it fails, entries from /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log follow:

error: Can't get IP address for X11 DISPLAY

SSH is working as I can connect via SSH just fine.

I want to be able to administor the system via Xwindows, i can do this via CDE on the machine itself, but this Hummingbird software would be more convenient.

Do i need to change/configure something on the HP UX box? Do i need to do something else on my windows Hummingbird side?

-John

[Jeeshan]

hi John

You should check that X11Forwarding is set to yes in the sshd_config file.

[John O'Neill_6]

Hi,

I've checked the /opt/ssh/etc/sshd_config
file and X11Forwarding is set to yes.

[Jeeshan]

did you start the dt for CDE desktop? follow this steps

/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e

Ensure the initdefault level in /etc/inittab is 3

#who -r

start CDE

/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

[Victor Fridyev]

Can you check name resolution for your DISPLAY variable ?
You must have a right resolution for both direct and reverse queries.

HTH

[John O'Neill_6]

I'm affraid that i'm running into my systems admin skill limitations...

The 'Common Desktop Environment' is working just fine on my HP UX 11.23 server, it has a monitor and keyboard/mouse all plugged in ad works an absolute treat.

What I'm trying to do is get this Exceed Software working, it is supposed to be able to do the same thing but on a PC.

I click START > Hummingbird > Exceed

A little floating menu bar appears.

I click 'Client Startup > New' on the little floating toolbar.

I get a dialogue window Titled 'XStart'.

It asks me for the Connection methog (I select Secure Shell), the Host IP address, user name and password.

I enter all this information whilst at the same time I have a normal SSH shell open wiht a:

# tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

I click the 'run' button, and here is what the syslog.log has to say:

Jul 23 16:37:44 prod sshd[29204]: Accepted password for root from 10.0.1.100 port 3483 ssh2
Jul 23 16:37:44 prod sshd[29204]: error: Can't get IP address for X11 DISPLAY.
Jul 23 16:37:56 prod sshd[29204]: SSH: Server;LType: Throughput;Remote: 10.0.1.100-3483;IN: 5196;OUT: 464;Duration:12.5;tPut_in: 417.1;tPut_out: 37.2

I have no DISPLAY paramter set, but i'm told that having that point back to your PC makes the connection insecure and does all sorts of bad things.

Sorry, I know I tend to speak very pedanticaly, but I am trying to offer as much info as possible.

I'll have a look at the replies, thanks, though to be honest i'm not entirely sure how to proceed.

-John

[Dennis Handly]

>I have no DISPLAY parameter set

Are you sure that ssh doesn't set it for you?
Can you echo $DISPLAY? This may show why it "can't get IP address".

>but I'm told that having that point back to your PC makes the connection insecure and does all sorts of bad things.

I'm not sure of that?

[Tim Nelson]

I do not use exceed but use WRQ. Here is my set up. Hope it helps.

1. In WRQ X manager. Configure SSH connection to UXserver. command execution is (/usr/bin/X11/xterm -fn 6x13 -sb -ls -display %IP#% -name "Control" &)

This opens an xterm on the UX server. If you echo $DISPLAY it should be set to the ux server e.g. 10.10.1.21:10.0 ( this is a virtual display due to the fact that it is not :0.0)

From there you can execute dtsession ( or in my case because I am using gnome /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Gnome.

Your desktop should appear.

From there create actions to run other remote xterms(or any remote of your choice) to other systems. They will all use the display of the 10.10.1.21:10.0, this will pump all connections back through the SSH tunnel instead of insecure connections directly back to your PC.

Hope this helps.

[John O'Neill_6]

Thanks peoples.

I've had a bit more of a poke around this Exceed thing and in the dialogue that appears when you go to start a new session there's a text box called 'COMMAND', with a BROWSE button next to it.

So I click on the browse button and a whole raft of things pop up in a tree view:

+IBM-AIX
+SCO-UX
etc, then
+HP-UX Host

So, i expand the HP-UX node and get these options:

CDE Calculatr
CDE Calendar Manager
CDE Editor
CDE File Manager
CDE Mail Reader
CDE Terminal
HPTerm
LoadMeter
Motif Window Manager
Text Editor
XClock
Xterm

Hmm... these all look like things that you can run on the CDE that I get on the HP UX 11.23 box's keyboard/moust set up.

Motif windows Manager?

Anyway if I select that the following appears in the COMMAND text box.

/usr/bin/X11/mwm -display @d&@;

So... gave this a go.

No Joy... exactly the same error appears in the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file.

Looks like Exceed just doesn't want to work, or is just too hard to manage. Shame really, it's supposed to be a terrific product....but i've spent enough time fighting with this crappy software :(

Time to go fight with some other issues...

You know... the older I get, the more confusing all this gets for me, once I would have relished the technical challenge, nowadays ... i just want this crap to work so I can go deal with the other million issues that people are screaming about.

Closing this issue, thanks anyway ppls. Points assigned.

-John

[John O'Neill_6]

.