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Conecting to Solaris Boxes?
Authored by: rsnyder on Mar 03, '03 08:35:44PM

I have been looking all over for a straightforward set of instructions for forwarding display from a Sun box to my OS X laptop using Apple X11 via SSH.

I want to be able to display the Solaris Common Desktop Environment so that I can run GUI applications on the Sun box remotely from my OS X powerbook.

Can anyone who has had luck doing this post the instructions as a Hint?

Thanks!



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Conecting to Solaris Boxes?
Authored by: andrewrn on Nov 25, '04 01:48:12PM

when you SSH into the server, you need to put the -X flag to automatically forward X windows to your system. Before you do so however, you may need to perform the following (I can't remember if you need to or not)

xhost +yourServerNameHere
but only for the first time on that computer

then just type:

ssh -X yourservernamehere

login and when you run any programs which use X11, they should display in X11 on your mac.



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