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Solaris OS 5.8 installation

I have a Solaris OS 5.8 system which I inherited and cann access it with root password via telnet. How do I install/activate/setup a gui interface for it?I'm new to Solaris and have no idea how to get started.Thanks for any help.

[258 byte] By [sunseek] at [2007-11-26 9:24:29]

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# 1

Try smc (/usr/sbin/smc) or admintool (/bin/admintool) for system management. Or for CDE try here: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cde/-Kevin

Kevin_Baumann at 2007-7-7 0:00:03 >

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# 2

Kevin - thanks for the input

I tried accessing SMC and nothing happens just the # prompt comes back.

When I try admintools I get "Error: Can't open display:". I entered DISPLAY=1.2.3.4 (the IP address of the SUnSolaris box)

and export DISPLAY.

Then I get the same error only with the IP address at the end of the "Error: Can't open display:1.2.3.4".

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

sunseek at 2007-7-7 0:00:03 >

# 3

are you still having problems?setenv DISPLAY 1.2.3.4:0 this is the system you are on not the sun box

mndavies at 2007-7-7 0:00:03 >

# 4

What kind of server is it? Are you sure it has a graphics card? If it doesn't then you need to setup xwindows on another machine and export your display there. Free for x86 is cygwin. There are probably many others, free and otherwise.

lackey at 2007-7-7 0:00:03 >

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