How to launch smconsole from UNIX?

[Mario Rodrigues]

I have Exceed, but which one of the Exceed programs do I need to startup? Here's what I have in the Exceed folder: Exceed, XConfig, XSession, XStart, etc. Also what's the display command to type in on UNIX (export DISPLAY ipaddr:0:0 ??)

[Robert Maiello]

Exceed is the one you need to start.

If your connecting with ssh you need to tunnel X11 in your ssh client... this would set the DISPLAY variable for you. If not tunneling or no firewall then yes setting your DISPLAY
variable to ipaddr:0.0 should work.

Depending on your X11 security you may need use the xauth command to give the unix user that siteminder runs as access to your display.

[Mario Rodrigues]

rminnj wrote:

Exceed is the one you need to start.

If your connecting with ssh you need to tunnel X11 in your ssh client... this would set the DISPLAY variable for you. If not tunneling or no firewall then yes setting your DISPLAY
variable to ipaddr:0.0 should work.

Depending on your X11 security you may need use the xauth command to give the unix user that siteminder runs as access to your display.

Thanks rminnj.

I use Putty (with SSH selected) to connect to the PS on UNIX. Not sure what you mean by "you need to tunnel X11 in your ssh client". Also which IP addr. do I set? My PC or the UNIX host's IP?

[banst03]

Hi Mario,

Please see the attached screenshot. You would need to make sure you have X11 forwarding enabled in Putty.

-Steve

[Edit: under X display location make sure it says something like ":0.0"  (remove the double quotes)]

[Mario Rodrigues]

Thanks Steve

[Anon Anon]

Hi Mario,

To go on a slightly different tangent, you may want to consider using a virtual X11 software e.g. Xvnc, RealVNC, TightVNC, etc., instead of Exceed. Not advocating for any one particular developer's offering -- they all seem to work consistently. Most notably, they are much faster and more responsive than X11 when displayed physically. (Virtual = X11 windows display within VNC client. Physical = X11 windows display as individual windows much like any other application window.)

Further, if your network connection gets disconnected, once you reconnect all your X11 apps/windows will be where you left them. You won't have to worry about what state you left any possible changes made in smconsole.

VNC uses its own port to communicate between the VNC client and VNC server. The default port is 5901 but easily changed. The port can be forwarded over SSH.

Multiple VNC sessions can run simultaneously.

The server portion of the software can usually be installed and instantiated without elevated privileges.

Thank.
-Roman

[Mario Rodrigues]

Thanks Roman. That sounds like a great idea. I'll give it a shot and report back