[rescue] SunOS 4.1.3 X-Windows client to modern Linux System, How?

[Stephen Conley]

Hey there;

So modern Ubuntu by default makes it fairly difficult to accept X clients
without going through an SSH tunnel.  It's possible but it's a lot of
config files.  A google search for your distribution and version will
reveal how to do it.  I believe even old X windows can use a modern X
server as a client? I believe it is rather backwards compatible ...

Do you have openSSH server on the Sun machine?  A cursory search suggests
there's some version of ssh for that era of sun.  If you do, you can make
sure X11Forwarding is set to 'yes' in the server SSH config, then SSH to it
thusly:

ssh -Y user at sun

... and just see if firing up an xterm brings it up :)  If you do it this
way, no env variables to fuss with, no configuration to deal with either,
it just magically works.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:26 AM john ferguson <jferg977 at aol.com> wrote:

> Comrades,
>
> I'm sitting at a desk which has a modern Ubuntu System underneath in a
> big tower and a SPARCstation10 on top with the monitors atop the Sparc.B
> I have the big monitor hooked up via a vga converter to the Sun and to
> the Linux system via HDMI. I can switch from one to the other but then I
> also have tokeep two keyboards and mice handy.
>
> Years ago we could run the Suns as X-Windows clients to X-windows
> servers on PC's running Windows (3 - think it was).B  It took proprietary
> software, but it worked and we sold a a number of sites with this setup.
>
> One of them included a SparcStation 2 which replaced a computer-room
> full of IBM leased equipment with a disk farm of removable hard disks
> which I think maxed out at a few megs each - cannot remember. At this
> particular site, a family owned shoe manufacturing business, the owner
> was astounded that the pizza-box could run the systems which heretofore
> had required a room full of big boxes and a serious Liebert air
> conditioning system.
>
> So the question is, assuming I'm running OpenLook on the SPARCstation,
> does anyone have any idea how I might do what was so easy 30 years ago?
>
> john Ferguson St Petersburg, FL
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