i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this to work and i’ve spent 2 days pouring over ease help!īefore using Putty for X-windowing, you have to have an X-displayĮnvironment set and ready on your Windows system to which Putty can hand-off
please check your DISPLAY settings and that the user identity of this terminal has access to the X server of this display. When i try to launch SMC (/usr/sbin/smc) I get the following message: It appears you are attempting to run the solaris management console from a terminal which does not have a suitable ‘DISPLAY’ enviornment. I’ve logged into Putty and enabled X11 forwarding and have verified that Xterm is turned on on the server. Help! I am a newbie to Solaris and am trying to use Xming to connect to my Solaris 9 server. Spent 2 days pouring over ease help!Īre you running an X windows emulator like Cygwin or something like that? If you are trying to log into the server remotely to get the gui, and not just the remote screen you’d need some sort of emulator to kick off before you try to launch smc, I believe.įrom: Tue, 20:43:10 +0000Subject: Solaris 9 X11 Xming I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this to work and i’ve Has access to the X server of this display. pleaseĬheck your DISPLAY settings and that the user identity of this terminal It appears you are attempting to run the solaris management console fromĪ terminal which does not have a suitable ‘DISPLAY’ enviornment. When i try to launch SMC (/usr/sbin/smc) I I’ve logged into Putty and enabled X11 forwardingĪnd have verified that Xterm is turned on on the server. Help! I am a newbie to Solaris and am trying to use Xming to connect to Verify that the following lines are uncommented from your