Re: remote X to SUN box

["Feroz F. Basir" <dbase77 at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

Thank you for replying. I have solaris 8. YES, it
worked at last. Thank you very much for your help. You
the best.

regards,
feroz

 --- AWM at inel dot gov wrote: > 
> Hi Feroz,
> I am doing the same thing that you describe.  I have
> an icon on my w2k
> desktop which points to a batch file
> (D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xwin.bat)
> The xwin.bat is the original batch file that
> appeared with the original
> installation of cygwin.  It has a few modifications
> to allow for the
> installation on my D drive and such.  The last line
> above the ":END" line
> reads "start XWin.exe -query sun_name -fp
> tcp/sun_name:7100".  If sun_name
> is Solaris 2.6 machine, I don't need the "-fp
> tcp/sun_name:7100" part of
> that command line.  It works fine without it.  But,
> and this is the real
> kicker, when connecting to a solaris 9 machine, I
> must have an external
> font server or I get the same response that you
> describe. (IE: the hour
> glass forever).   But wait, there's more.  If I
> point the external font
> server (IE: -fp tcp/solaris_9:7100) at a Solaris 9
> machine I cannot run a
> graphical application which prints several traces
> horizontally across the
> screen.  If I point the external font server at a
> Solaris 2.6 machine the
> application runs but squashes the traces and lables
> horizontally such that
> it is very difficult to read.
> Bottom line here is that Solaris 9 has munged up the
> fonts (or fonts
> server) with respect to cygwin.  And I don't have a
> clue how to fix it.  I
> don't know much about the Solaris 9 OS. 
> Incidentally, all my solaris
> machines are running CDE.  I sure would like to know
> what SUN did in
> Solaris 9 that is different.  I really need this
> funtionality with the
> described application.  Any SUN gurus out there?
> -Alan
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to cygwin. I downloaded to do remote X to my
> SUN box. I already read the FAQ section about SUN
> box
> issue with xfree. I ran these 2 commands but still
> got
> hourglass, no login prompt. Command as follow:
> 
> xwin -query sun_ip from client_ip
> 
> xwin -query sun_ip -fp tcp/sun_ip:7100
> 
> As I said, both gave me hourglass for some reason. I
> wonder if anybody out there ever do remote X with
> SUN
> box and experience this problem. If so, care to give
> me guideline on how to persue this matter, please?
> Am
> I missing something here?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> regards,
> feroz
> 
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