Exceed/SSH/Solaris 10

Stky10

(Not sure if this should go onto the Windows Forum since Exceed is a windows app, but I will try here for now)

I'm trying to connect to a Solaris 10 server using Exceed. If I have telnet enabled, and I do a XDMCP Query/Broadcast, I can see from a snoop on the network card of the server that the windows client communicates via telnet/x11 with the server, and then presents the graphical login screen within the Exceed Gui.

If I then disable the telnet service on the server, the XDMCP broadcast/query no longer works.

I'm trying to now connect with the Solaris server via SSH (like the good corporate directive says). I've downloaded and installed the exceed addon Connectivity Secure Shell

http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/cpsecurity.html?cks=y

I know through putty that ssh is working. With Exceed, I can see that I can authenticate successfully (and give simple commands like ls etc) with the solaris box, but no Gui ever appears. I have X11forwarding turned on in both Exceed and the Solaris /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

What do I need to do to get this to work?. Do I need to run a command upon ssh authentication that will start the X11 window system?. If so, what command should I use?. Shouldn't exceed set the correct DISPLAY variable upon login, or is it something I need to set manually?.

stereo_steve

Unrelated to what your asking, but as someone who is forced to use a windows laptop to manage solaris servers :rolleyes: ...

I just use linux now. You can boot a live cd from your laptop (i'm guessing you have pointsec? The live cd will work but unfortunately you can't install linux as a dual bot). Open the terminal and ssh to the machine your working on. The command looks like this....

ssh -X user@IPAddress

where 'user' is obviously the user you want to log in as. You can then just run programs from solaris. For example ...

#./somescript.sh

The display will automatically be sent back to your machine

brianmc

Not Exceed related but I've had a lot of luck using a freeware X server called XMing.

If you have PuTTY available I find it the most straight forward way to work things...

Step 1: Run XMing so I have an XServer running on my machine (no fiddling with settings, just run it)

Step 2: Start putty making sure that X11 forwarding is selected.

Step 3: Work away as normal through PuTTY but now with the capability to run any GUI tools I require on the Solaris box.

Stky10

Figured it out in the end. Despite it saying in the documentation that the DISPLAY variable is automatically set... it wasn't. Needed to set it, and then export it. Took some fine tuning to discover and perfect it, but its working now sweet as a nut.

Tried out Xwin32 as well. Its cheaper, and has SSH functionality built in without having to use an addon. And it seems to work just as well.

niallb

I used xwin32 a long time back and liked it a lot at the time.
I just use a linux laptop all the time now.

If price is also an issue, it's worth checking out the Xming/putty combination
mentioned above for comparison - hard to beat free.
It's also a very simple setup, and because of that it's very
unlikely you'll tie yourself in knots over any configuration issues.

fishfoodie

Exceed is an abortion & used a ton of additional undocumented ports.

If your going to use ssh, you're best of using VNC & tunnelling thru ssh. Saves money & is secure.