| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi, We are trying to connect to a Digital Unix V4.0a system using XDMCP-broadcast from Exceed V5.1.3 (Intel and Alpha versions), and we have tried it from Excursion (version ??? Intel). We are running Enhanced security on the Unix machine. I have searched our COMET databases for references to the above problem, and have implemented the necessary entries to the ttys (ttys.db) file. Yet we only seem to be able to connect to the Unix box and get the CDE, if we us an IP address instead of a Machine name, in the line:- local\:0|local\:0.0 ...etc... that we copy and edit to be:- 16.42.1.151\:0|16.42.1.151\:0.0 ..... etc. .... Using Host name instead, we get the message:- "Cannot obtain database information on this terminal" That is from Exceed on Intel, and Excursion on Intel. From Exceed on Alpha, it we get the message what ever we put in the ttys file. Any help would be really appreciated. Alan Barker. DTN: 851-1519 [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 9228.1 | XDMCP, Exceed etc. | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | alan barker | Thu Mar 20 1997 05:26 | 22 |
FYI: anyone who is interested and future reference. After some long hours, a couple of my colleagues solved the problem described in my initial note. The problem seemed to be with the names of the trusted machines contained in the ttys file, and the corresponding entries in the /etc/hosts file. The machine names in the ttys file need to be in UPPER-CASE. (Well, this makes it work anyway). In the /etc/hosts file, although we had the full names in initially, we changed those to UPPER-CASE and added other names for the machine/ip address, also in UPPER-CASE. The Windows NT Server in our domain, is a primary DNS server. The Unix box is a secondary DNS server. This setup seems to be causing a few problems itself. DNS doesn't always find out the names/ip addresses of machines on our domain. In fact it looses them completely at times. Anyway it works now, in a reasonably consistant manner. Alan. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||