Paul R. Ganci wrote:
I am using VPNC to connect to my employer's network of SUN solaris
systems. I can login into the Sun workstation on my desk at work with
no problems. However if I try to open an X application on my home
system from my workstation I keep getting:
Error: Can't open display: vpn226.myworkdomain.com:0.0
DNS is working properly since vpn226.myworkdomain.com resolves to
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx which also happens to be the IP address assigned to
device tun. The solaris box on my desk is using the csh shell so on my
workstation I did:
setenv DISPLAY vpn226.myworkdomain.com:0.0
and on my home PC:
xhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Clearly I am missing something. Do I have to open something up on my
firewall in addition to the usual VPN ports? I need to be able to open
some X apps on my home PC for it to be of use. Any help is, of course,
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The problem is that the X server was started with -nolisten TCP. Since
the Solaris box doesn't have SSH installed I can't open a window on the
home FC2 system utilizing X forwarding. Hence I had to set
DisallowTCP=false in gdm.conf in order to remove the -nolist TCP
control. This is not the ideal solution albeit I have ports 6000 and 177
shutdown at the firewall. I am having my Sys. Admin. at work install SSH
and then I should be able to go back to -noliste TCP and still have
everything work correctly.
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Paul (ganci@xxxxxxxxxx)
