[SunHELP] GUI interface between unix servers

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Fri Aug 26 10:07:16 CDT 2005


Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: "Grindell, Joan M." <GrindellJ at SEC.GOV>
> " 	I am logging onto one of our unix servers from a blade. I get an
> " 'xterm'.  From the xterm I'd like to bring up gui sessions (like admintool).
> " Does anyone know how I need setup my blade to do this.  Are there any
> " howto's on this?
> 
> i assume you're using some sort of xserver in the blade.  is $DISPLAY
> set properly in the xterm?  if it is, anything you launch will come up
> properly.

And in fact, if you're connecting to the remote machine via ssh, ssh
will even take care of DISPLAY for you (provided, of course, that X
forwarding is enabled).  You shouldn't have to do anything in that case;
it should Just Work.


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