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Conference noted::motif

Title:	"OSF/Motif" is a trademark
Notice:	MOTIF kit note in 7.*
Moderator:	GOOEY::GRASS

Created:	Mon Aug 07 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5973
Total number of notes:	24620

5949.0. "SUN Displaying to VMS: Different Protocol Version" by VAXRIO::RENATO (Renato Albuquerque - MCS - Brazil) Thu Mar 27 1997 13:20

	Hi

  My customer is trying to run an application on an HP machine (SPARC 20 
  running Solaris V2.5.1, SUN OS V5.5.1 and Openwindows V3.5.1) displaying
  its output on a VAXstation 4000 VLC (running VMS V6.0 and Motif V1.1).
  After following all the instructions contained in TIMA article entitled
  "[DEC TCP/IP] Can't Open Display Displaying to VMS System Using TCP/IP",
  the following message is appearing at the HP terminal:

Xlib:  client uses different protocol version (11) than server (2816)

  I would like to know if upgrading Motif to V1.2-3 should solve this
  problem of if there is anything else involved (an incompatibility, for
  example).

  Thanks in advance for your help,
						Renato.

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5949.1		GRIM::MESSENGER	Bob Messenger	`Thu Mar 27 1997 15:50`	19
	Are you sure this is an HP machine and not a Sun machine? >Xlib: client uses different protocol version (11) than server (2816) Looks like a byte swapping problem: 11 decimal is 000b hex while 2816 is 0b00 hex. Upgrading to a new version of DECwindows Motif won't do anything because DECwindows Motif is the VMS client, while your problem is with a VMS server and an HP/Sun client. It's the server that's responsible for doing byte swapping, so you should have them install the latest TIMA kit, which is also available on BULOVA: BULOVA::DECW$PUBLIC:[SERVER]VAXDECW01_061.A By the way, I don't think VAX/VMS V6.0 is supported anymore so you should advise the customer to upgrade to a supported version before elevating this as an IPMT case (assuming that installing the patch kit doesn't fix it.) -- Bob

Are you sure this is an HP machine and not a Sun machine?

>Xlib:  client uses different protocol version (11) than server (2816)

Looks like a byte swapping problem: 11 decimal is 000b hex while 2816 is
0b00 hex.  Upgrading to a new version of DECwindows Motif won't do
anything because DECwindows Motif is the VMS client, while your problem is
with a VMS server and an HP/Sun client.  It's the server that's responsible
for doing byte swapping, so you should have them install the latest TIMA
kit, which is also available on BULOVA:

	BULOVA::DECW$PUBLIC:[SERVER]VAXDECW01_061.A

By the way, I don't think VAX/VMS V6.0 is supported anymore so you should
advise the customer to upgrade to a supported version before elevating
this as an IPMT case (assuming that installing the patch kit doesn't fix
it.)

				-- Bob