Hello Friends

My question is

I am using 1). Redhat Linux Server 9.0 Machine 2) Windows 2000 Professional Machine

Now I am connect telnet in Windows 2000 Professional Machine

Win2KMachine > telnet 10.0.0.10
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-8smp on an i686
login: kannan
Password:********
Last login: Mon Oct 3 10:41:47 from 10.0.0.180
[kannan@internet kannan]$ startx

The following message was displayed.

xauth: creating new authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority
Using authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority
Using authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/kannan/.Xauthority


Fatal server error:
PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
[kannan@internet kannan]$

Whether any idea to run startx command for telnet session in win2k machine. Please reply.

Thank You

Hi

I don't think this is entirely possible - if I am not mistaken, you need some other kind of software to open a remote X-terminal on a Windows system. Normal telnet as far as I know does not have the graphical facilties needed by an X instance to represent itself onscreen on a Windows machine. Also, I am assuming an X-terminal needs to be able to pass data long according to a specific protocol, that Telnet does not support. (Especially not the one supplied with Windows machines).

You might want to google for terms like "windows xterm" or "xwindows emulator" or "xp xwindows" or something similar. I am guessing that there ARE tools available that will allow you to run an X "terminal" on a Windows machine that interfaces to a Linux machine's running X-server.

Why don't you use SSH with X-forwarding? SSH is secure unlike telnet, and it can tunnel X through it. Just get some kind of SSH client (like Putty), which should have an option to enable X forwarding. Also get an X server (like Xming). Then when the X server is running, and you use SSH with X forwarding, and you can start any X applications from the terminal.

If you need the ability to forward the whole desktop environment, then you should use VNC.

hello


Assuming that your linux box has a X instance already running , and from the Window box you have opened a DOS window and from there you are trying to connect to the linux box on RH9 , then you must check the following


1.- You are an allowed user for the Linux box
2.- That your /etc/hosts.allow has the entry ALL:ALL so that anybody in the network
can connect to your box
3.- Telnet service is on on the Linux box



good luck