Summary: Decnet: how to redirect display.

From: Kevin Behrooz <behrooz_at_rudolf.nscl.msu.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:15:55 -0400 (ADT)

About five minutes ago I had asked:

> What is the equivalant command for
> "set display/create/node=nodename/transport=decnet"
> in digital unix?
>
> using "setenv DISPLAY decnet_node_name" does not work and
> gives me the error "Can not open display".


Thanks to quick responses from:

"Dave Golden" <golden_at_falcon.invincible.com>
kliebert_at_kgo.csc.com (Karl D Liebert)
elalan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
thomas_at_lkg.dec.com

and the rest of managers whose e-mail I have not received yet.


The solution was to use "setenv DISPLAY nodename::0.0


Cheers to all,

Kevin





From: "Dave Golden" <golden_at_falcon.invincible.com>

> What is the equivalant command for
> "set display/create/node=nodename/transport=decnet"
> in digital unix?
>
> using "setenv DISPLAY decnet_node_name" does not work and
> gives me the error "Can not open display".

I seem to recall that this is described on one of the "X" manpages.
Try setenv DISPLAY node::0.0

I think the transport layer knows how to deal with the DECnet "::"
convention.

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From: kliebert_at_kgo.csc.com (Karl D Liebert)

using "setenv DISPLAY decnet_node_name" does not work and
gives me the error "Can not open display".

I do believe you need a ":0" at the end of the display name.

setenv DISPLAY decnet_node_name:0

I think that the display is numbered like this in case
a machine has more than one display atteched to it. If
there is a more complicated problem with dec net then
you've exceeded the depth of my knowledge.

Later,
Karl

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>From alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com Tue Oct 8 11:51:09 1996

        There's two parts:

        setenv DISPLAY decnet::display.screen (usually 0.0)

        and then you have to get the VMS system to allow
        the incoming X protocol requests. I think that
        DECnet ships out authentication information by
        UID instead of name, so you have to take that
        into account for the security stuff on the VMS
        side. There may also be startup parameters for
        the X server that control whether remote connections
        are allowed at all.

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>From thomas_at_lkg.dec.com Tue Oct 8 11:52:35 1996

setenv DISPLAY node::0
Received on Wed Oct 09 1996 - 04:07:27 NZDT

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