Enabling Remote X Display on OpenSolaris Desktop

On an OpenSolaris Destop machine, by default, the Xorg server starts with the -nolisten tcp option.

# ps -ef | grep Xorg
    byun  7956   490   6 14:20:11 ?           0:47 /usr/X11/bin/Xorg :0 -depth 24 -nolisten tcp -audit 0 -br -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth

Since the X server blocks the TCP communication, it doesn't allow to display any X application on this host remotely even if one allows access to this host using the xhost command as shown below.

In order to fix this issue, you need to remove the "-nolisten tcp" option when starting the Xorg application. This can be done by modifying the smf(5) configuration as shown below:

# svccfg -s application/x11/x11-server
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> listprop options/*
options/default_depth        integer  24
options/server               astring  /usr/X11/bin/Xorg
options/server_args          astring 
options/stability            astring  Evolving
options/value_authorization  astring  solaris.smf.manage.x11
options/tcp_listen           boolean  false
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> setprop options/tcp_listen=true
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> listprop options/tcp_listen
options/tcp_listen  boolean  true
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> end

The machine  used for this test was running the following OpenSolaris version:

# cat /etc/release
                       OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86
           Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 19 November 2008

# uname -a
SunOS xxxxx 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

Posted at 03:01PM Dec 04, 2008 by Chansup Byun in Solaris  |  Comments[0]