Exceed users or any one who works remotely?

[northfield]

OS at home is windows.
I am loging into a unix environment.
It is actually Solaris (unix).


Note I have been using telnet so far to log into remote network by
telnet>
open>
to>jaguar.wmin.ac.uk

userid: w123456 (fictional)
paswod: ****

I want to set up exceed so that I can log into a remote computer from home and do some work. I do this by clicking on the start button in windows:

start/programs/Hummingbird/Exceed/client wizard

This opens up a dialog box:
firstly it request

Host name and Host type.
Hoste type is a drop down dialog box with the options <DEC UNIX, DEC VM, HP, IBM AIX, LINUX, SCO, SG IRX, SUN, UNIX>. Note it advises to use the latter i.e. UNIX if you do not know the type of host. Here is what I have typed for each:

Host: jaguar.wmin.ac.uk
Host Type: Unix,

<click-next-button>

phase-2 of client setup wizard:
3 choices, one selection box and two text boxes:

Just above the selection box it says:
Please select an application on host type ... if the application is not listed {select user specified). Drop down option box<Xterm, DECTerm, CDE Terminal, CDE Editor, Netscape Browser, CDE file manager, CDE Mail reader, load Meter, XClock>

I selected the first: XTerm (NB that this was already selected, or default)

Application: @(XTerm, method=stdappdb) <browse-button>
(NB the gobbledegook in the text box was there automatically)

Parametrs: -display @d&@; <default-button>
(note the gibberish in the text box was there automatically)

<click-next-button>
phase 3 of of client setup wizard

The requests for login info of host:
User-id: w123456
password: ****

<selected-the-check-box> Display host replies
(NB the above check box is for trouble shooting info)

<RUN>
When I finally click on the start button, seperate dialog box opens with title and message:
XStart
connecting to remote host ...

Then finally an error dialog box window pops up:
Unable to connect to host string using specified start method
XSTART-connecting to


Can any body help?
Any one uses Exceed?

 

[ElDonAntonio]

Can't help you with exceed but I use VNC across platforms and it works great if you have fast connections

 

[n0cmonkey]

First, drop telnet and install SSH. That will solve the second problem. The second problem being that we dont know if tcp 6000 is open. That is an important question. You can tunnel X over ssh, which will help dramatically. Look into it.