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Bug ID 6638904
Synopsis Instructions for enabling remote access to X server are incomplete
State 10-Fix Delivered:Verified (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory xserver:man
Keywords sxde
Responsible Engineer Barun Parichha
Reported Against snv_79
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_10u3
Commit to Fix s10u8_01
Fixed In s10u8_01
Release Fixed solaris_10u8(s10u8_01) , solaris_nevada(snv_111) (Bug ID:2173809)
Related Bugs 6453362
Submit Date 7-December-2007
Last Update Date 16-June-2009
Description
Bug 6453362 added text to the man page for Xserver describing how to undo the Secure By Default restriction that the X server is not remotely accessible by default.  The command to execute is
        svccfg -s svc:/application/x11/x11-server setprop options/tcp_listen = true

However that command doesn't take effect immediately.  So users waste a lot of time trying to figure out why it doesn't work.  It does take effect if you log out and back in again, and there might be some other way of making it take effect without having to do that, but the Xserver man page doesn't give you any idea of what it might be and "obvious" things with svcadm do not work.
It only takes affect when the X server restarts, so logging out & back in is required.
Work Around
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Comments
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