Re: [Sheflug] X client need talk to a sun server on my com port

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Sammy Redshaw wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 18:41, Chris J wrote:
> I have no idea i haven't looked at it yet my brother just took one  v120
> servers from work to let me have look around the server but it still in the
> car at the moment........

To start with, you'll probably want to use something like minicom over the
serial link.  Once you've got the machine running, just plug it into your
network and you're off.  It should have an hme onboard.

Oh, don't try using "killall" on it until you've read Sun's killall
manpage ;)

Cheers

Richard


> > And Lo! The Great Prophet Sammy Redshaw uttered these words of wisdom:
> > > how do I get x  to display a  window for        a sunserver connected via
> > > the
> > >
> > > com
> > > port on my pc running linux?
> >
> > If I understand this right ... you've got:
> >
> > 		 RS232
> > 	[SUN] <---//---> [PC]
> >
> > in which case you'll need to run PPP over the serial link; X is a TCP-based
> > protocol, so you need a network connection. Once the network is running
> > between the two, you should be fine :)
> >
> > Chris...
>
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