Login to Solaris desktop from Windows using Cygwin

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon June 4, 2006  
Tag Icon Tagged: Solaris system administration

Cygwin is a great tool for UNIX people stuck in a Windows world as it provides a vast assortment of UNIX tools in a Windows command prompt. One of the most powerful uses of Cygwin is as an X server. While it may be useful occasionally to run a single X application in its own window, that can be boring. As a more exciting option, it is simple (one command!) to launch a full Solaris desktop session complete with login screen.


Solaris is already setup to allow remote X logins, so no work there. On your Windows box, install Cygwin (if you haven’t already), open a Cygwin prompt and type:

X -broadcast

You should see the login screen of the Sun host (as long as it is on the same subnet). Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    Just to add that if you want to get the login screen of
    a specific Sun host, for example 10.23.0.44, use Xwin -query:

    # Xwin -query 10.23.0.44



    cheers.
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