Hello, I have Sun Ultra 10 and I want to be able to access it remotely from our CO-LO through a XP or Windows 2000 system. Is there such an animal? Please excuse the naive question as we are new to SUN and its functionality. We are aware of the ability of SUN system to access other SUN within the network and we would like that function on our desktops if possible. Thanks in advance for your response.

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for. You can install an ssh client (such as putty or a product I believe is simply called SSH, both free, but not Free), and then ssh into the Sun box (assuming it's properly configured for such access). This is similar to telneting in, but more secure. This will give you command-line access to the Sun box. If you install an X server on the Windows client (I think there's a free (but not Free) version that is only functional for 30 minutes at a time, or you can shell out some cash for a real version), you can run the graphical programs on the Sun box, while they display on the Windows box (similar to PCAnywhere/VNC/Timbuktu), but with only the specific program rather than the entire desktop. You can install a VNC server (free, and Free I believe) on the Sun box, and then either install a VNC client (free) on the Windows box, or use VNC-JAVA from within Mozilla (Free) or some other web browser (hint hint - avoid IE), and connect to the Sun in that fashion. This works like PCAnywhere/Timbuktu. Hopefully this'll give you some ideas to get started. -- DebianFanatic

DebianFanatic is right VNC is a good free product (with some limitations)but if you want something more reliable and robust then look at Hummingbird Exceed about (£80 I think). This is what I use when I need to connect to Solaris, but you will find after a while the command line is better in a lot of ways, so you may want to implement SSH! Phil.

Thanks for the advice.. Do you know what port VNC uses? It seems to work well as I have tested it from win2k to winxp internally. Reminds me of Remote Admin Example; PCany 5631 Remote admin 4899

According to the FAQ at: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q53 A VNC server listens on two ports. The exact port numbers depend on the VNC display number, because a single machine may run multiple servers. The most important one is 59xx, where xx is the display number. The VNC protocol itself runs over this port. So for most PC servers, the port will be 5900, because they use display 0 by default. In addition, VNC servers normally have a small and very restricted web server built in, which allows you to connect a browser to them and use the Java viewer. This runs on port 58xx. Note that this is the HTTP port used for downloading pages and applets, but once the applet is running it uses 59xx for VNC just like any other viewer. The servers can be changed to listen on other ports if, for any reason, these are not suitable for you. See the server's documentation for more details. Most of the viewers, if given a display number larger than 99, will interpret it as a direct port number and will not add 5900. See also the next question. If you are running a viewer in 'listening' mode, where it accepts connections initiated by the server, it will listen for incoming VNC on port 5500.

If you want to use a powerful X server on windows, check out Cygwin's X Server. Here are a couple of links to get you started: http://www.cygwin.com http://cygwin.com/xfree/