Solaris

Forgive my naievety, but is there a non-Gui version of the administration tool, SMC?

I need to run this on a remote Putty login and it is just plain UNIX.
When I invoke SMC, I get java.lang.ClassLoader errors, a bunch of jibberish and a root prompt.

I have searched Google, seems as if it doesn't exist.............

install an X11 server (xming...) and enable the the x11 forwarding in ssh and putty...

DukeNuke,

Are you referring to a process or service that could be loaded?
Is there any record anywhere as to how to do this?

download xming (or any other free xserver for windows) and install it. after that enable x11 forwarding in your sshd conf file (/etc/ssh/sshd_conf), restart sshd and you are done. putty has an option for x11 (left side ssh , x11 options...).
thats all,
DN2

I have xming downloaded and installed, have x11 forwarding enabled in both Putty and in the /etc/sshd/sshd_conf file.
When I launch Xlaunch however, and start a program/connection using Putty, I get the Xwindow screen, a login prompt, and then after
logging in the Xwindow box disappears and the program closes.

The application apparently bails. There is no orphaned process or running application I can see.

Has anyone done this successfully before? I'm sure there is probably something I am missing, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Thanks for any advice.

try to start something like xclock... or smc directly. why use a graphical login?

Thats exactly what I wanted.

A way to run SMC directly, without the graphical GUI.
But smc won't launch off the character based command line via Xming, I get java errors same as before.
I assumed this wasn't the way, and that Xlaunch must be invoked.

Maybe it's a flag off the command line?
No manual page- I don't know if there is any character-based admin tool in Solaris.
If so it's not discussed much on the web.