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Oracle® Solaris 11.3 Desktop Administrator's Guide

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Updated: March 2018
 
 

Displaying a Client From a Remote Machine

By default, Oracle Solaris 11 is configured to be secure and does not accept direct X11 connections from other machines by using the TCP protocol. To display a client from another machine, use the X11 Tunnelling options of the ssh command.

For instructions describing how to change the configuration of the svc:/application/x11/x11-server SMF service to set up direct and non-tunneled X11 connections over TCP, see the Xserver(1) man page.

Note - When you make manual connections, you will need to set up the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY environment variables appropriately. When you use the SSH X11 tunnelling options, these environment variables are automatically set for you.

The following example shows how to display on your desktop, host1, the Package Manager GUI from host2.

Example 8  Displaying a Client From a Remote Machine 
user@host1:~$ ssh -X admin@host2
Password:
Last login: Fri Apr  6 19:20:18 2012
Oracle Corporation      SunOS 5.11      11.1    March 2012

admin@host2:~$ /usr/bin/packagemanager

For more information, see the ssh(1), Xsecurity(5), and xauth(1) man pages.

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