Re: Xfree and DECwindows

[Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Dave,

Some simple questions first, since you didn't mention them.

1) Did you run 'xhost %my_vms_hostname_or_ip_address' in a Cygwin/XFree86
xterm before launching an app on VMS?

2) Have you tried running XWin.exe with the -ac (no authentication) parameter
as a test?

That should give you a start.

Harold


Dave Barlow <yelmalio@sartar.fsnet.co.uk> said:

> Folks
> 
> Anyone out there got any experience making Xfree86 V4.2.0 work with
> OpenVMS V6.2 and DECwindows? From reading around Google searches I
> gather there is a xf86cfg and/or accessx program that heps set up
> .Xauthority properly. Unfortunately I can not seem to find this on the
> copy I just installed on Win NT and XP.
> 
> The problem I have is that after setting up my display variable and
> starting an xterm, $SET DISP/CREATE/NODE=node/TRANSPORT=TCPIP and
> $CRE/TERM/DET in DCL, it returns 'cannot open display'. Digging around
> a little further it looks like my PC is rejecting the connection,
> error is 'connection rejected by node'. At first I thought this was
> because xauth was not configured properly. Unfortunately this older
> version of DECWindows does not support 'xauth generate' 
> 
> I noticed from Google that some one has configured XFree86 to use
> DECWindows so this is possible. Unfortunately I can't see what the
> magic button is that I have to push. 
> 
> My works, rather shockingly, has decided to adopt open source software
> in order to reduce costs. It's an airline so costs are a big deal at
> the moment. They have chosen Xfree86 as the preferred replacement to
> Exceed but no one appears to have tested it against VMS.
> 
> Any one willing to deliver a clue by four?
> 
> Dave "or a LART" Barlow
> 
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