TOPIC: Xporting a graphical session to a Sun box.

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> Is there a trick to getting a remote X session to run on YDL 4.0?
> Currently, I can telnet into one of our Sun boxes, but cannot run an X
> application from it on the G5 (xclock, xterm, etc).  I have the DISPLAY
> environment variable set on the Sun box, and I have tried both :0, and :0.0
> as the displays after the IP address of the G5, and I still get a "Error:
> Can't open display:" message.
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> "ForwardX11 yes" is set in /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

On the Sun box, you need to run:

xhost +

... which will allow all incoming export requests (see xhost for more info). On the machine which is exporting its display:

export DISPLAY=[server-ip:0]

This HOWTO was prepared by AJ Hawks, Terra Soft Solutions