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Solaris OS provides the /etc/release file to easily determine the base OS level or the OS release.

cat /etc/release

Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 August 2007

Xnest is a nested X server that I use in some cases to remotely access my Solaris 10 boxes. From Xnest man pages:

Xnest is a client and a server. Xnest is a client of the real server which manages windows and graphics requests on its behalf. Xnest is a server to its own clients. Xnest manages windows and graphics requests on their behalf. To these clients Xnest appears to be a conventional server.

I’ve installed X11 on my MacBook and now I can log into my server:

Xnest -query solaris_host01 :2 &

If you get an error like this:

Not on system console, root login rejected

Edit /etc/default/login and comment out the following line.

# CONSOLE=/dev/console

Be very carefull with this for the security implications. That’s all.