i had a sun solaris 8 server...i just tried to connect to my sun solaris through rlogin from redhat enterprise linux 5.0...but i am getting "cannot connect to x server" while i am opening a particular application...how to sort out this issue...i am new to linux as well as to sun solaris. i dont have much idea. plz give me the step by step procedure to solve this issue

First, you need to enable Xwindows listening on your workstation. Normally, X runs with a "-nolisten" parameter. Don't know where off the top of my head to look for that in RedHat, but since you're running RHEL5, a quick call to support or look in their knowledgebase will tell you.

Second, after you get X restarted without the -nolisten parameter, you have to let the remote box start sessions on your server. As root, type in "xhost <ip address of remote system>", or (less preferred..) "xhost +".

Log in to the remote server. Type in "export DISPLAY=<ip address of your redhat workstation>:0". Then run whatever you'd like.

Thanks Mr. TBone. I will try this and i will come to you back.

Kingston.

hi tbone

Actually i am getting the following error msg:

xterm xt error: can't open display rws2:0.0
where rws2 is my linux work station. And in /etc/gdm/custom.conf file,one line is there that is DisallowTCP:false.
Is there anything to do here. Plz help me.

Plz Help me

I did help you, but you didn't read the instructions. You're getting the "can't open display", because local X is not set to listen for incoming connections. See step one of my first reply.

And please do not send follow-up mails, asking for more help, when someone doesn't answer you quickly enough to suit you.

Thanks Tbone.

I solved the issue with your help. I had edited the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file. In security section i made disallowtp=false. After that i have restarted the x server by switching into runlevel 3. Then i came to runlevel 5. Now it is working.

Thanks for your help

Kingston. S

Hi all

I am using rhel 5, sun 5.10 workstations on my network and i am using reflection x software to take the graphical console of my linux,solaris workstations. In reflection x, especially in broadcast option i am not getting the hostname of linux workstations. But i am getting solaris workstations. In /etc/gdm/custom.conf i made the following entries.
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
Then i have restarted the display manager. ( Gnome ) Means just i have changed the runlevel from 5 to 3, again i came back to the runlevel 5. But still i am not getting the hostname on the reflectionx broadcast option.
I need help

Regards

Kingston. S

hi All

I am using RHEL 5 on one workstation which is having 16 GB ram and amd 64 bit processor. How much space can i alot for the swap file system. I heard that 4 gb is the maximum size of swap file system for 32 bit processor architechture.

Plz help me.

======"I am using RHEL 5 on one workstation which is having 16 GB ram and amd 64 bit processor. How much space can i alot for the swap file system. I heard that 4 gb is the maximum size of swap file system for 32 bit processor architechture.

Plz help me."=========

Kingston:

How much space for the swap:

You are running it as a workstation not as a server. A swap file size between 500 Mb and 1.5Gb is enough. Usually an ordinary swap size of 800Mb is not entirely used under normal work load. Your giant 16 GB RAM does not even need a swap file as it is more than enough to accommodate normal space needs. If I had half of your RAM size I would have willingly deleted my "initrd.gz" as it is no longer needed and "swapoff" my swap partition for use to other linux system in the disk.

You may allocate 4GB for swap if you like. But you will later find out that 90% of it is unused. Why? Linux has a very good memory implementation: very efficient.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

Thanks yaar for your valuable information...i will do that and observe.

thanks yaar for your valuable information....i will do this and observe.

Hi all
I am using a RHEL 5....while i am plugging my pen drive, i am not getting the pen drive icon in the desktop...But i can mount the pen drive through command line interface...i used find the driver from "fdisk -l" command. Then i used to mount that. But my users are not allowed to do these tasks....if they plug the pen drive...they should get the pen drive icon on the desktop window..this is what they want...Plz help me.

Thanks & Regards

Kingston

Open new threads for each new question, please. Don't keep tacking on to a thread that's been closed.

Also, you don't say WHAT desktop you're using...and spell out your words.