Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Start Ethereal 0.10.12

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From: "Igor Krugliak" <Igor.Krugliak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:35:25 -0400
I am connected remotely via telnet..

Guy Harris wrote:

have you configured the desktop machine's X server to allow 
connections from the Solaris machine?

Could you please describe generally the configuration of X server..

Thank you
Igor Krugliak
Messaging systems engineer
Rogers Wireless Inc
Tel: (416) 935-8119
E-mail: igor.krugliak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:13 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Start Ethereal 0.10.12


Igor Krugliak wrote:

> I run ethereal in this way and get next results:
> 
> # ./ethereal
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

What is the value of the DISPLAY environment variable?

If it's set to display locally (i.e., you're running Ethereal on a 
desktop Sun workstation or a PC running Solaris), have you configured 
your desktop X server to allow connections by root (using xhost)?  I 
suspect Solaris uses a local connection mechanism that supports passing 
credentials, so it can know the user ID for local connections.

If it's set to display remotely (i.e., you're remotely logged in to the 
Solaris machine, and want it to display on a different machine on your 
desktop), have you configured the desktop machine's X server to allow 
connections from the Solaris machine?

If it's not set at all, it needs to be set appropriately.

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