Very powerfull - and usefull - mailing list. Greetings!
Many thanks to
Thomas Leitner, David Hull, Kevin Partin, Dennis Peacock,
Richard Bond, Blake Williford, RichardFrank, Simon Greaves,
Grant Schoep, Nikola Milutinovic and Joerg Bruehe for their answers.
As usual, you can find the original question at the bottom.
The first solution is to login from a command line prompt and to run
X -once -query <HostName>
It works, but I need to have a local X server running too.
I tested Thomas Leitner' solution, using Xnest (I found it for Tru64Unix
and for Linux) with satisfaction:
>
>The best way from another Unix machine is to used "xnest". Under tru64
>it is in OSFXNEST435 subset.
>
>You use it like this:
>
> Xnest :2 -indirect remotehost -geometry 1024x768
>
>gives you a 1024x768 chooser window to the other remote machine
>called "remotehost" in this example. You can choose from the hosts
>you want to login to.
>
>In contrast:
>
> Xnest :2 -query remotehost -geometry 1024x768
>
>directly takes you to the remote host's login-window.
>
>If you don't need to work on the local machine, you could as well
>start the local X server differently. Like this:
>
> X -indirect remotehost
>
>I consider the "Xnest" way the most flexible, though.
>
The only problem was the fonts path of the nested server, that is by default
shorter than the path of the primary X server. I solved the problem using a
font server, and starting Xnest with the
" -fp tcp:/<FontServerName>:<PortNumber>" switch.
Another interesting solution could be a freeware software, VNC,
proposed by David Hull, Dennis Peacock and Richard Bond,
that seems to have more functionalities.
I will surely test it. You can find informations about VNC at
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/.
Thank you again.
Bye.
Alessandro.
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The original question:
>Hi Managers,
>
>anybody knows how can I run a full tru64unix X section (with the
>user/password screen) remotely, in the same way I do with an
>X server configured as XDMCP on a PC?
>
>I need to do that either from another tru64unix machine or from a VMS
>machine.
>
>Thank you in advance.
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Alessandro Brunengo
System and Network Administrator
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Via Dodecaneso, 33
16146 - Genova - ITALY
tel. +39-010-3536317
fax. +39-010-310461
Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 07:29:44 NZST