Hi,

I installed VMWare on Windows 2000 and then set up the VM for Linux RH8.0. I start up linux and it works perfectly fine. I set up my DNS and Proxy settings etc., I have configured my Ethernet card to be Bridged to my network. Hence I should get all flexibilities as what I can get on my windows machine.

My windows machine has the IP like 192.168.26.224 and when I get into my linux box through VMware I get the IP 192.168.26.198

I'm able to ping my VM from windows and ping my windows machine from my VM. Now when I try an rlogin into any of the Unix networks, it gets in fine, but doesnt set the DISPLAY variable.

I set the display using the command

setenv DISPLAY 192.168.26.198:0.0 and then when I run the xhost it tells me, "Can't open display ".....""

What am I doing wrong - please someone who has expertise on VMware and Linux help me out here. Its frustating as none of the X applications can work.

Thanks,

Karthik

xhost +
then try to connect...

Thanks, I tried xhost + and it still says cant open display. The funny part if if rlogin through some other X client like Hummingbird Exceed and then everything works fine as the Exceed uses the same IP as my windows host OS. From VMware if I set the display to be my Windows IP then all the displays get routed to the Exceed's session. Why within vmware I'm not able to set the display. Has it something to do with VMware settings ? virtual IP sort of stuff...
I'm confused.......
Please help

Guess You just need to make sure hummingbirds going

But all the X applications will open up in Exceed. That doesnt look good. So that means there is no other way out of this ?

Depending on your shell, setenv may not be what you want. Try

instead.

I have tried that one too in the past. It tells me export: Command not found. Any other ideas ?