I'm dealing with a NetWare 5x server solution (don't ask why in 2013! 😝) and the console on the server runs on X11 and I've read elsewheres that its possible to remotely access the GUI manager thru X11 because its the GUI shell.
How can I access this with my X11 client on my MacBook? I have a general knowlege, but not working knowlege of X11.
TIA!
MacBook (13-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
can you ssh into the NetWare server?
ssh -Y username@netware.server.address
now start the GUI manager and it should send the display back to your Mac over the ssh -Y established X11 tunnel.
That would be the easy way.
The hard way is to look into the xauth command to allow remote systems to make unsolicited connections to your Mac.
You still need to get the NetWare server to start the GUI. Maybe you can use the telnet command (or maybe rlogin) to connect. Then you have to tell the NetWare send the display. I assume you can setup a DISPLAY environment variable on the NetWare server or maybe the GUI manager has a command line option that specifies the display server. But if ssh is not supported, you will have had to use xauth on your Mac before trying to get NetWare to send its display back to the Mac.
I'm new to (an old) NetWare or NW in general. I think I must need to do something on the server end to make it work.
I forgot to mention its the ConsoleOne thingy that runs in default Xwindow environment on NW 5.1.
I'll try what you suggest to see if it works.
X11 & NetWare Console
