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Hi everybody,

I tried to run X apps from a remote (sun) on my local masqueraded desktop.

This worked fine until I've added another linux box now doing the dialups,
routing ... and masquerading.

Still I can do telnet, ftp, ping to the remote machine.

But I didn't find out how I should do configurations to start an X app on
the remote sun that uses the masqued DISPLAY (hmpf).

I already played with dxpc but didn't succed.

Has anybody done this ?
Any help is greatly (desperately) appreciated.

I use 2.2.16 on both my local linux (i386) and solaris 2.6 on remote side
via 64kbit dialup.

Thanx,
Harald

DISPLAY=<ip_addr_sun>0:0
export DISPLAY
and check your dxterm/dtterm

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Quote:> Hi everybody,

> I tried to run X apps from a remote (sun) on my local masqueraded desktop.

> This worked fine until I've added another linux box now doing the dialups,
> routing ... and masquerading.

> Still I can do telnet, ftp, ping to the remote machine.

> But I didn't find out how I should do configurations to start an X app on
> the remote sun that uses the masqued DISPLAY (hmpf).

> I already played with dxpc but didn't succed.

> Has anybody done this ?
> Any help is greatly (desperately) appreciated.

> I use 2.2.16 on both my local linux (i386) and solaris 2.6 on remote side
> via 64kbit dialup.

> Thanx,
> Harald

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Quote:> Hi everybody,

> I tried to run X apps from a remote (sun) on my local masqueraded desktop.

> This worked fine until I've added another linux box now doing the dialups,
> routing ... and masquerading.

If you're saying you've got a box that uses an IP masquerading router as
its gateway, and that you want to sit at this box and run remote
programs on your local X server, the problem is that the remote system
can't connect to the X server on your local box because the remote
system only sees the IP masquerading router, not your local box. I know
of three ways around this problem:

1) Set up port forwarding on the IP masquerading box so that incoming
   X requests (usually port 6000) on the IP masquerading router are
   redirected to the internal system you use for this purpose.
2) Use SSH to initiate the connection, and configure SSH on both sides
   to tunnel X protocol requests.
3) Use VNC rather than X. (Actually, VNC uses X, but it keeps the X
   server on the remote system, thus reversing the client/server
   relationship.)

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Sorry, this doesn't fit to the described configuration.
Thanx anyway,
Harald

OK, port forwarding did it !
Thanx,
Harald