Originally posted by: apple08

dear aix gurus,

1. xlock

1386-117 xlock: Unable to open display .

i have commented out the these entries on /etc/ssh/sshd_config this 2 entries:
X11Forwarding yes
XAuthLocation /usr/bin/X11/xauth

after that i have refresh this sshd service.

would really appreciate your advice. thank you.

Originally posted by: orphy

What's DISPLAY set to? Ensure that it's pointing to an IP that actually has an X server. If you ssh in to the AIX box from you PC, you need to have something like Exceed to handle X display.
Orphy

Originally posted by: apple08

hi,
i will issue #echo $DISPLAY on that server tomorrow.
mr orphy, when you are saying the display must pointing to an IP that has an X server. if i connect from my workstation to one server, meaning i need to ensure the echo $DISPLAY output is pointing to my workstation is it?
i'll try to ssh to the server using xstart software also tomorrow.
hope to hear from you. thank you

Originally posted by: orphy

If you are on your workstation (assuming it supports X-Windows), you telnet/ssh to another server, all you should need to do is set DISPLAY to point to you workstation (e.g. export DISPLAY=<workstation>:0.0). If you still have permission issue, you may need to do "xhost +<another_server>" on the workstation.

If you use some kind of xstart to login to a box, it should have DISPLAY properly set up for you but if not, you need to find out the IP of your xstart PC/workstation and set DISPLAY to point to it after you login to the box.
Orphy