On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0700, Shea Martin wrote: > I installed debian-sarge on a laptop. I want to telnet to my Solaris/SPARC > box and throw screens back. But I get an error saying can't open display. > Yet I have appropriate entries in /etc/hosts for both machines. In my > telnet session, DISPLAY is set to laptop:0.0, so it should work? > > If I ssh -X into the solaris box, I can throw screens back fine. I have > never had a problem throwing screens from that Solaris box before. But the > laptop is a fresh install, so I suspect the problem lies there. > > Any ideas? > > ~S > Hi Shea, as the other poster pointed out, ssh -X would be the better solution. On the other hand, I have also worked on machines which didn't have any sshd running, so you go with what you have. In this case make sure that you delete the option '-tcp nolisten' from /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. That is IIRC... others will jump on me immediately if I am wrong here. Hth, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379
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