Hi out there at the screens,
I've got a borderline case here... I'm in the process
of switching from a Windows environment to an Mandrake
based one. Right now I'm struggling with the following
problem:
I want to connect with a xterm-Window from my Mandrake Box
to a SUN Solaris box. I must use X since I want to start
an X app located on the Solaris machine.
I'm using a dual-boot workstation. On the Windows half
with Hummingbird eXceed installed and used everything
works fine and easy since years.
Changing to Mandrake 8.2 I'm unable to figure out how
to accomplish the same task. According to one of my LX
books it should be as easy as using the following command:
xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0
(assuming that 66.66.66.66 is the Solaris box' IP adress)
But all I get is the following error message:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real Xt error: can't open display: 66.66.66.66:0
(same holds true for variations of the -display option:
-display 66.66.66.66:0.0, -display 66.66.66.66 etc.)
I was assuming that remotely accessing an X-Server would be
as easy as connecting with telnet or VNC to another machine.
Obviously it is not :-( ...
It can't be an Solaris or network issue since I'm using in
both cases the same machine with the same IP. With Windows (eXceed)
it works, with Mandrake (XFree86) it refuses to do so...
Hence it must be something with the local command execution or
the local linux X configuration...
I checked various Linux and Unix books, but they didn't come
up with anything helpful. I searched this mailing lists' archive:
nothing. I googled for it. I found the "XDM and X Terminal mini-HOWTO".
They're saying in paragraph 6.2:
"You can run X on a Linux box, instructing it to query a Solaris machine
as previously described:
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 66.66.66.66"
Obviously I'm not an X guru ;-). If I start another X server, how
can a xterm then decide which one to connect to (the local one or
the remote one on Solaris) ? I don't want to set up a complete
X-terminal. The Linux worksation should stay on its own. It just
should open one xterm (or x-app) on another machine.
I examined the eXceed config files for this case (windblows).
They say:
[Xstart]
Start Method=0
Command=xterm -display 9.9.9.9
Host=66.66.66.66
Host Type=SUN
(...)
OK - obviously I got the xterm's command syntax wrong. The -display
option has to point to the machine the xterm is running on (and
not as I read and assumed first to the remote machine). But how to
I tell my xterm then which host it should connect to ?
I browsed a little bit thru /etc/X/ and found /etc/x/xdm/Xservers.
But that's too deep inside X for me. I didn't want to play arround
with X' config...
Now I'm kinda lost... Any pointers ?
Many thanx for your help in advance !
Greetings from the polish border :-)
Oliver
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