| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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Help please ...
There is always an exception to break a rule, I just hope this is
not the first time this has been broken.
I have a customer who wants to do the following.
Work from an Application on an ASCII term, connected to a Server
via LAT to Workstation. This application "opens" a window on the
graphics head and display mapping information.
The user Application ,on the VT, is then used to call up additional
information for display on the graphics head.
Suprise, suprise they can get it to work if the application, or
another, is running on the graphics head. However if they try to
run the display remotely from the VT, it fails !
Any ideas please ?
Regards
SteveV
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| 1915.1 | Who what when where why? | DECWIN::FISHER | Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23 | Thu Dec 14 1989 11:29 | 29 |
If I understand right, if the application runs on the workstation, all is well.
If you run it on another system, it does not run. You have not given any details
at all about how it fails, what has been tried, what OS, or what you already know,
so it is hard to help.
I will assume DECwindows and VMS, since that is what I know best.
The first things to check are:
1. Is the display name hardcoded in the program? For example, if it is
XOpenDisplay("0::0"), it will always work only on the local node. What
you probably want is XOpenDisplay(0). This will force the pgm to look
to the outside, in particular, on VMS it will look to DECW$DISPLAY.
2. If the above is ok, make sure that on the remote node you have done
SET DISP/CREATE/NODE=workstation.
3. Then check security (Customize security menu on the session manager)
to make sure that you are allowing connections from the remote system.
You must specify the individual node name, not the cluster alias.
4. Then check that the workstation really knows about the remote system
name in its DECnet database. If SET HOST clientnode works, that should
be ok.
If it does not work after all this, then come back and we will see if we can
help more.
Burns
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| 1915.2 | Topic Closed thanks | SMAC10::VINER | Sometimes I lead,sometimes I follow | Fri Dec 15 1989 10:40 | 8 |
Burns
Many thanks, it turns out to be a mis-understanding of Client-Server
cooperation, and a coding error using XOpenDisplay.
Regards
SteveV
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