V240 - How to get GUI w/o a monitor?

Sorry for the noob question. I inherited a Sun Fire V240 as part of my network and have little Unix experience. I have been able to get by managing this system via SSH but are increasingly in the need for some GUI. For example, the APC Network Shutdown app for Solaris requires it runs from a GUI interface. This system has no monitor and I was wondering if there was a way to get a graphical interface to the system. perhaps via VNC or some other technology built into Solaris 9 that I haven't tapped into? Any help would be much appreciated.

[551 byte] By [ctoledoa] at [2007-11-27 8:47:00]

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# 1

SSH can tunnel X11 traffic for you, if you login to the system with ssh -X <user>@<host> it will create a display for you which you can use to display programs that on your local desktop.. .7/M.

mAbrantea at 2007-7-12 20:50:53 >

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# 2

I think you're looking more for Hummingbird's exceed, CYGWIN or UWIN, or reflection X - versus VNC or XVFB

Hummingbird and Reflections are payable items, but there are other tools which are free (only included uwin as it used to be free)

google or wait for answers on "free x clients"

jeffrey.sa at 2007-7-12 20:50:53 >

# 3

My personal favourite if forced to utilize a windows platform is Xming ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming) and PuTTY. .7/M.

mAbrantea at 2007-7-12 20:50:53 >

# 4

Finally got Xming working. This is exactly what I needed. Thanx a bunch.

ctoledoa at 2007-7-12 20:50:53 >

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