Granting Permission for a Remote Machine to Run the SAP ASE SDK or SAP Open Server Installer in GUI Mode

Steps to grant permission for a remote machine to run the SAP ASE SDK and SAP Open Server installer in GUI mode.

  1. At the UNIX prompt of your local machine, enter:
    xhost +remote_machine

    where remote_machine is the machine on which you are running the installer.

  2. On the remote machine where you are installing the software, verify that the DISPLAY environment variable is set to the local machine where you are viewing the installer windows and output.
    If the installer cannot find your DISPLAY variable, you cannot run the GUI.
    • For C shell:
      setenv DISPLAY host_name:0.0
    • For Bourne shell:
      DISPLAY=host_name:0.0; export DISPLAY
      where host_name is the name of the local (display) machine.
Note: For remote installations, you must be able to rsh into the machine on which you are installing the software. If you cannot do this, add the installation host to your .rhosts file.
Parent topic: Installing on a Remote Machine