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X11 DISPLAY not working anymore from Solaris to OSX

Alan15Oct 19 2016 — edited Oct 25 2016

Hello

I've been connecting to a Solaris machine for a few years now from my Mac desktop.  I've been able to open X stuff with no issues, but now suddenly, I get the "Can't open display" errors.

Our Solaris machines are not configured for ssh, so I have to use rsh. (I can't change that)

On my Mac:

$ xhost + <solaris_ip>

$ rsh username@<solaris_ip>

Then, once logged in to Solaris, I set DISPLAY

$ export DISPLAY=<mac_ip>:0.0

xterm, xclock, etc..... now give me the dreaded "Can't open display" errors.

If I login to a Linux box, all X stuff works just fine.... its just our Solaris machines that are giving me issues.

My Apple specs:

OS X 10.11.6

XQuartz 2.7.9

My initial thoughts are that my Mac is not allowing the connection anymore, maybe from a recent security update???

A colleague thinks it may have something to do with XProtect.plist & XProtect.meta.plist, but I honestly am stumped.

This is a work thing for me, and I'm kinda dead in the water if I can't figure this out!  Any help would be much appreciated!  Thanks.

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