In trying to start the Solaris Management Console, I executed the command:
# /usr/sbin/smc &. The output of that command is as follows: "It appears you are attempting to run the graphical Solaris management Console from the a terminal which does not have a suitable 'DISPLAY' environment. Please check your 'DISPLAY' settings and that the user identity of this terminal has access to the X server of this display." At this point I am ompletly at a loss on what are the next steps. My search for solutions to this problem led me to this forum. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Welcome to LQ.

From what OS and using what command do you connect to the Solaris machine ?

Assuming that you do have a graphical session, when you ssh into the Solaris server (which is my second assumption), use "ssh -X user@solaris". You should (if /etc/ssh/sshd_config is the default one) then have the $DISPLAY variable set to localhost:10.0 (or similar) and should be able to start a graphical command such as smc.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, check for the following, which should say "yes" and also be uncommented

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Thank you very much. This was very helpful

[QUOTE=jlliagre;4629865]Welcome to LQ.

From what OS and using what command do you connect to the Solaris machine ?[Solaris 10]

Solaris 10. Steve's suggestion worked for me. Thanks a bunch for your help.