Connect to Font Server running on Solaris 10

[Zoltan_Lakatos]

Hi,

This problem was already posted on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1536798 but there was no solution yet.
So, the problem is same, but I have Ubuntu 14.04...

I have an application running on a Solaris 10 server and I am getting the display on my Ubuntu desktop (14.04.2 trusty with kernel 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 and unity 7.2.4).
But the problem is the fonts don't display well. So I tried to connect to the font server running on the Solaris server.

Firstly:
$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

I tried all these variants:
xset fp+ tcp/<solaris-hostname>:7100
xset fp+ tcp/<solaris-ip>:7100
xset fp+ tcp/<solaris-FQDN>:7100

The host name resolution was ok.

Font path:
$ xset q
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins

But I keep getting this error:
xset: bad font path element (#8), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

If I removed (xset fp- built-ins) the 8th of elements (built-ins), the error changed to #7 and so on...

No network problem:
# telnet <solaris-ip> 7100
Trying <remotehost-ip>...
Connected to <remotehost-FQDN>
Escape character is '^]'.

I verified that the font server is running on the Solaris server this way:
bash-3.2# netstat -an | grep 7100
*.7100 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN
<solaris-ip>.7100 <ubuntu-ip>.48015 29312 0 49232 0 ESTABLISHED

That was the telnet connection...

bash-3.2# cat /etc/*release
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10x_u10wos_17b X86
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 23 August 2011

I have more of a Debian (Wheezy) system, which works well...

I have Googled for the last days on this without finding any answer. So this is my last resort! Any help will be really appreciated...


Thanks in advance!


[Alternatively, is there some way to install the Solaris fonts on Ubuntu?]

[Zoltan_Lakatos]

The alternative "resolution" is very primitive:
I just copy all fonts from font server to all Ubuntu clients...
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/sun
scp -r root@<solaris-ip>:/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/sun/
fc-cache -fv

Create an extension for the xorg.conf:
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/F3bitmaps"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sun/100dpi"
EndSection


That's it!

(tcpdump -n dst port 7100 shows Ubuntu client doesn't connect to Solaris, when I use the xset fp+ tcp/<solaris-ip>:7100)