Re: Newbie Mac OS X X11 VMS DECTerm question
Re: Newbie Mac OS X X11 VMS DECTerm question
- Subject: Re: Newbie Mac OS X X11 VMS DECTerm question
- From: Ettore Aldrovandi <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:53:58 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
I have not dealt with a VMS machine in a long time....but: it seems you are
right about the vms note not having permissions to connect to the remote
display.
If we forget about security, for now, on the Mac you could try to check
"Allow connections from network clients" in the security tab under the
"preferences" menu item (thanks Haroon!). Then, from an xterm say:
xhost +wsa10.yrl.co.uk
(I know, I should not perpetrate this xhost insanity...) What happens,
then?
The next step would be to have in place a decent authentication mechanism,
but honestly I have no idea if vms implements anything similar to
Xauthority in the unix world --- and as far as I know the VMS ssh
implementation does not do X11 forwarding, but maybe someone with more VMS
expertise can step in?
--Ettore
Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics - email@hidden
Florida State University - http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
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>Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:20:12 +0000
>Subject: Newbie Mac OS X X11 VMS DECTerm question
>From: Elliott Roper <email@hidden>
>I'm trying to start a DECTerm on my Mac. It is running Apple's X11 0.2
>Back at the VMS box, I have made sure that TCPIP is a transport
>as in:-
>$ show log /table=decw* *tran*
>(DECW$LOGICAL_NAMES)
>(DECW$SERVER0_TABLE)
> "DECW$SERVER_TRANSPORTS" = "DECNET"
> = "LOCAL"
> = "TCPIP"
>
>I have created a display as in:-
>YRW> set display/create/node=yrmace.yrl.co.uk/trans=tcpip
>YRW> show display
> Device: WSA10: [super]
> Node: YRMACE.YRL.CO.UK
> Transport: TCPIP
> Server: 0
> Screen: 0
>
>but when I try
>$ create /term/detach
>
>which should bring a DECTerm up on the display node (yrmace.yrl.co.uk)
>all I get is:-
>XIO: unable to open connection _WSA10:
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>ÞCW-E-CANT_OPEN_DISPL, Can't open display
>
>and much the same for any other X application I try to start from the
>VMS machine
>
>I suspect the Alpha not having permissions at the Mac end, but I
>haven't a clue how to change them or where to find any error log stuff
>on the Mac side.
>
>Where do I start debugging this?
>
>tia
>Elliott
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