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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

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
Total number of notes:	19516

3063.0. "Display Served to VMS from ULTRIX??" by ALLVAX::MCDONALD (Life could be a dream.) Wed Jul 11 1990 15:56

    
    	On RISC ULTRIX I am trying to serve the DECWindows display
    	of a certain vendor product over to a VMS based DECWindows
    	system.
    
    	I have set the security properly on the VMS system and I
    	issue the following commands on the RISC machine:
    
    		setenv DISPLAY node::0
    		
    	When I run the product, the display does not show up anywhere...
    	it just sortof hangs.
    
    	Any thoughts?
    
    	(p.s. This HAS been posted in an ULTRIX Conference as well)
    
    
    							mac

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3063.1	What's in the error log?	STAR::VATNE	Peter Vatne, VMS Development	`Wed Jul 11 1990 19:07`	7
	Check SYS$MANAGER:DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG, and see what the server has to say about the connection. If it refused the connection, then your security is in fact not set up properly. Setting up security can be tricky. Are you using DECnet or TCP/IP? If DECnet, then you should enable both the user name and the UID. If TCP/IP, you must enable user name *.
3063.2	Hmmm	ALLVAX::MCDONALD	Life could be a dream.	`Thu Jul 12 1990 13:05`	7
	No errors in the log... I CAN serve a regular terminal window without a hitch, but this particular application hangs. Perhaps it IS application specific. Thom
3063.3	Sounds like you didn't enable the user id	STAR::VATNE	Peter Vatne, VMS Development	`Thu Jul 12 1990 14:59`	3
	Being able to display a terminal window but not an application is a symptom of enabling the user name but not the user id. However, I would expect to see an access failure logged in that case.
3063.4	Hmm?	ALLVAX::MCDONALD	Life could be a dream.	`Thu Jul 12 1990 22:00`	3
	I'm not SURE I follow you when you say "enable the user id"...
3063.5	Whose toolkit is it built with?	R2ME2::VANGILDER	Jim V., DECwindows Toolkits	`Fri Jul 13 1990 10:45`	5
	If the application was built with the MIT Xlib, rather than the Digital supplied version, I don't think it will support opening DECnet connections.
3063.6	Re: .5	MIPSBX::thomas	The Code Warrior	`Sat Jul 14 1990 18:42`	1
	Depends on how you build Xlib. If you use DNETCONN, DECnet works just fine.
3063.7	How to "enable the user id"	STAR::VATNE	Peter Vatne, VMS Development	`Mon Jul 16 1990 18:53`	10
	I have just entered a release note for V5.4 to explain this. If you are using DECnet to display an Ultrix application on a VMS workstation, you must use the Customize Security menu to authorize both the user name and the user identification number (user ID). This is because some applications will identify the user by the user name, and some will identify the user by the user ID. The user ID is a small number less than 32000. It is the number found in the /etc/passwd file.