Launching of Sas Management Console in Unix

[Anand_V · Accepted solution]

After connecting to server via MobaXterm can you just run below commands?

sis$ cd /s01/sas/sashome/SASManagementConsole/9.3
sis$ ./sasmc

[japsas100]

@Anand_V @Kurt_Bremser 

When I log in to putty and X server is running. Here is output 

sis$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:11.0

sis$ cd /s01/sas/sashome/SASManagementConsole/9.3

sis$ ./sasmc

It's hanged and it shows nothing.

[Kurt_Bremser]

When putty finds a local X server on start, and X11 forwarding is enabled, it will create the necessary environment on the server on its own. After logging on,

echo $DISPLAY

should reveal this. Just start smc, without any further settings.

[Anand_V]

It’s because you don’t have the package installed on your UNIX server. It’s
just to test if the X11 is working fine.

Can you try to launch SMC now from the terminal?

[Kurt_Bremser]

A little information to provide you with a picture of what is needed:

in UNIX, a graphical interface based on the X protocol uses several components:

• the application that needs a graphical interface
• the X server; this is a program that provides communication with the screen, mouse, keyboard and other devices
• a window manager that controls how the applications share the screen
• a connection between all those parts

The difference between Windows and the X protocol is that X allows the parts to be located on different hosts, and communicating via network.

SAS Management Console is the application in this picture, your putty client and the SSH server on your Linux provide the connection (by tunneling the unencrypted X traffic through the encrypted SSH), but you still need the X server and window manager, and that is what applications like the CygWin X server, X-Manager or MobaXterm provide.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Do you have a X-Windows server running on your desktop? Without one, there's nothing to forward to.