SUMMARY: DISPLAY problem

From: Paveza, Gary (gary.paveza@AIG.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 10:05:38 EST


Thanks to everyone who sent emails trying to solve this problem. Many
mentioned xhost + (which wasn't the problem as the DISPLAY was being sent to
my PC to a Reflection X server), or that it should be DISPLAY=IP:0.0 (the
:0.0 had been inadvertedly left off - but was present in my trials).

The problem ended up being related to the default gateway being used at my
site. Changing to a different gateway solved the issue. I am working with
my networking group to try to figure out the exact problem.

---------------------------------------------------------
Gary Paveza, Jr.
Senior Systems Administrator -CSA
(302) 252-4831 - phone

                -----Original Message-----
                From: Paveza, Gary
                Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:51 AM
                To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
                Subject: DISPLAY problem

                This one is driving me nuts.

                I am connecting to my Solaris 8 server using Reflection X
version 12. If I login as my user ID and set DISPLAY=<ip address of
PC>;export DISPLAY and then run /usr/openwin/bin/xclock everything is fine.
If I then login as root instead of my userID and do the same thing I get the
following:

                Error: Can't open display: <IP Address>

                Any ideas?

                ---------------------------------------------------------
                Gary Paveza, Jr.
                Senior Systems Administrator -CSA
                (302) 252-4831 - phone
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