stuart m wrote:

> I have always used exceed or vnc to get a terminal emulation of unix
> on a windows machine. Can you get a full terminal emualtion of a
> solaris screen on linux using it's built it xserver? ie if i had linux
> could i do without exceed?

Stuart,

I have no solaris experience but I'm certain the answer is yes
linux has a complete x-server, or you could use vnc from linux

Dave

stuart m wrote:

> I have always used exceed or vnc to get a terminal emulation of unix
> on a windows machine. Can you get a full terminal emualtion of a
> solaris screen on linux using it's built it xserver? ie if i had linux
> could i do without exceed?

I hope this is what you want....
Download Knoppix LiveCD www.knoppix.net and boot up PC from this CD
and then connect using using tightVNC or remote desktop to Solaris machine
running tightVNC compiled for Solaris. You can also run secure shell server
(ssh) and log into Solaris for an X-session.. though I haven't done that
to know enough about it.

"stuart m" wrote in message
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> I have always used exceed or vnc to get a terminal emulation of unix
> on a windows machine. Can you get a full terminal emualtion of a
> solaris screen on linux using it's built it xserver? ie if i had linux
> could i do without exceed?

If both machines are running X, no problem. Log in to the Solaris machine
remotely, set your DISPLAY variable to the linux machine, and start X. You
may have to enable remote X sessions via xhost on the linux box.

Like so:

linux% xhost +solaris
linux% rsh solaris
solaris% setenv DISPLAY linux:0.0 # or "DISPLAY=linux:0.0; export" for
bourne shell
solaris% /usr/X11R6/bin/X

I think you can probably give hostname:display as a parameter to X so you
can omit setting the DISPLAY variable, look at your manpages.

Play around with it... you'll figure it out. I know it can be done as I've
done it before but I no longer administer Solaris machines and I've
forgotten the exact steps.... going the other way is even easier if you use
Sun's login manager. Just choose log in to remote host from the dropdown
box and plug in the name of the linux host. You'll still need to use xhost
to open up access for the linux box.

dave

stuart m wrote:
>I have always used exceed or vnc to get a terminal emulation of unix
>on a windows machine. Can you get a full terminal emualtion of a
>solaris screen on linux using it's built it xserver? ie if i had linux
>could i do without exceed?

You can get a complete login as if you were in front of the Sun
box with something like this: $ X -query sunhost
provided of course that XDMCP is enabled.

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stuart m wrote:
> I have always used exceed or vnc to get a terminal emulation of unix
> on a windows machine. Can you get a full terminal emualtion of a
> solaris screen on linux using it's built it xserver? ie if i had linux
> could i do without exceed?

Yeah, sure. Hummingbird wrote Exceed because
Windows didn't have X. Linux is like all the other
UNIX-y systems; it's got X, so you don't need Exceed,
anymore than you need Exceed on Solaris or AIX.

Duke