Display of Unix Machine on a PCQ Linux Machine

gopalkasat · 12-14-2004, 01:16 AM

hi

I have PCQ-Linux 2004 installed on my desktop computer. I am trying to connect to a Unix server X-window session from my desktop. I am using telnet. I am able to login in the server but when i try to get the display of the server on my desktop i get the message like

Error: can't open display

can anyone help me for this

pls if anyone have any solution pls pls reply with detials

Its urgent for me

bathory · 12-14-2004, 02:37 AM

On the Unix server you must run:

Code:

export DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx:0.0

where xx.xx.xx is the IP of you Linux box
On your Linux box you give:

Code:

xhost +yy.yy.yy

yy.yy.yy is the IP of the Unix server (you can also use the name of the host).