How to access solaris 10 gui from windows machine?

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MohammedYakub Moriswala picture MohammedYakub Moriswala · Feb 20, 2012 · Viewed 24.2k times · Source

I want to access solaris 10 GUI screen from my windows xp machine. Is there any software which can provide this flexibility ?

Thanks,

Answer

Amil picture Amil · Jan 19, 2013

Yes. Assuming your Solaris box has X already installed:

  1. Install Cygwin on your Windows machine
  2. While installing, once you get to the packages page, make sure that X11 is set to Install so that you get all X11 packages
  3. Once Cygwin is done installing, run Start->All Programs->Cygwin-X->XWin Server
  4. Follow these directions (copied below for convenience)
  5. Type ssh -Y username@[solaris box ip] (note you may need to run /usr/openwin/bin/xhost + first)
  6. Run any program which can use X11 (i.e. /usr/openwin/bin/xclock on my Solaris)
  7. It should display in a GUI windows

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