Mr Welsh,
when trying to run X remotely you have do this.
A = ip of machine running Xwin
B = ip of machine you're trying to run remote X app on.
on machine A type "xhost +B"
Now, that's not to say that the firewall isn't stopping it as well, but
it's at least a place to begin.
Enjoy!
-ed
brian welsh wrote:
brian welsh wrote:
>
> Hello *sm-ers,
>
> TSM Server 4.1.1.0 and AIX 4.3.3
> TSM Client 4.1.0.0 and AIX 4.3.3
>
> In our environment we have multiple IP-domains seperated by a firewall. For
> clients in the domain our TSM-server is in, there is no problem. For clients
> in domains behind firewall there is a problem with the GUI.
>
> First we set the DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=ipadres:0), then
> we give command 'dsm'. And after a while receive message 'Error: can't open
> display'.
> When we start a session with command 'dsmc', then we can do back-up and
> restore without problems.
>
> Now, we think that it have to do with the security, set on firewall ports.
> Now we like to know what kind of data-type the commands dsm and dsmc are
> using, so that we can do a request to open the ports for that kind of
> data-traffic, so that we can use the GUI in case of a restore.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Brian.
>
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