Solaris GUI on a Windows 2000 box

acme420 · March 4, 2010, 11:34am

I have a Sunfire V240 installed with Solaris 10.

They are networked together and connected to a hub. They can ping eachothers IP address.

I am trying to get a GUI from the V240 to display on the Windows 2000 box.

Can someone please give me some step-by-step instructions on how to achieve this please?

I've tried various X client software packages but can't get anything to work!!

The annoying thing is, this is something I've done many times before in the past (8 years ago!!) but just can't remember what software I used!!

Thanks.

incredible · March 4, 2010, 11:47am

Use Xmanager .

acme420 · March 4, 2010, 12:01pm

Thanks for replying. I'm looking for anything free and will need some guidance on how to set it all up. Sorry, it's been that long that I really can't remember much at all.

Some step by step instructions would be really helpfull

Thanks

incredible · March 4, 2010, 12:34pm

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pludi · March 4, 2010, 2:50pm

I'd recommend Cygwin/X. Part of the Cygwin distribution, open source (completely free), and no configuration needed. What you can't do with it (at least I've never tried) are XDMCP connections, meaning you can't get the graphical login of the Solaris box. But it's no problem running a graphical app there, and have it display on the Windows box (either via the DISPLAY env variable or SSH X11 forwarding)

h112 · March 4, 2010, 5:24pm

download the zipped file you will find a small tutorial it might be helpful

pludi · March 5, 2010, 12:55am

Could you please rewrite that as a regular post for those users that don't want to download archives by unknown people, containing possibly dangerous files. The explanation itself is pretty good, but the presentation is lacking.

h112 · March 5, 2010, 3:58am

I have no time to rewrite it , The zipped file only contains a single *.rtf file and several *.jpg's to illustrate the idea that's all . If you are in a doubt you can check it with multiple anti malware software.
i don't mind at all if you want to rewrite it and post it here again , then go ahead

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pludi · March 5, 2010, 4:09am

I know what the ZIP contains, and I've checked it with a few scanners.

However, the idea of this site is to make information and the solutions available to everyone. What if someone needs this solution and is behind a proxy denying archive downloads? What if they don't have an unzip utility? What if there's no RTF reader?

Interesting, tho, you did have enough time to respond and post links to online virus scanners, but not enough to copy-and-paste the contents of your file.

pludi · March 5, 2010, 4:42am

Contents here:

h@foorsa.biz:

Preface
This is a how to describing how to forward x11 to a windows client through ssh.
My aim here is to display gui tools to ease system administration ,
one good example for this is gedit instead of vi or any other text based utility (note : i don't recommend using gedit to edit configuration files ).

Requirments
1-putty chiark home page
2-xming Xming X Server for Windows | Get Xming X Server for Windows at SourceForge.net

Steps

step1:Installing xming on your windows machine ( i tested it under win xp pro edition sp2 )

After downloading xming binary, install it as is , next next and you are done.

Step2: Editing your ssh server configuration.

Uncomment the following entries in sshd.config under /etc/ssh/
please don't forget to restart ssh daemon after editing ssh config.
please refer to Figure-1 , Figure-2 and Figure-3
# X11 tunneling options
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
Step3: Launch xming then putty with settings aforementioned before .

Step4: Set environment variable $DISPLAY to "$: export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 " please refer to Figure-4.

Step5: launching gedit please refer to Figure-4.

Conclusion:
This how to shows the idea of how to configure ssh sever to forward x11 using open source tools , this tutorial might be helpful for new to UNIX and Solaris .

Total time to download the zip, extract it, and copy/paste the text, plus picture attachments: 1 minute.

acme420 · March 15, 2010, 12:07pm

Thanks everyone for your help. All is working well

TonyFullerMalv · March 22, 2010, 6:29pm

XMing from:
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