On Saturday 03 September 2005 22:26, Josh Trutwin wrote: > This seems so simple, it must be late. > Error: Can't open display linuxbox:0.0 You may have some firewalling in your way, or your local X server doesn't listen on TCP. It's probably more of a pain to fix this then using ssh as below. > I need to run this @#$! Oracle Java installer remotely since this is > on a headless server. I've tried ssh -X to the solaris box, but the > installer seems to hang with that option. Try ssh -Y. -X only forwards untrusted X, which is probably crashing when the installer speaks trusted X. If that doesn't work, make sure the solaris machine has xauth and doesn't have X turned off in the ssh settings. -dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050904/ff98e071/attachment.pgp