From: david20@alpha2.axp.mdx.ac.uk Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:12 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Cygwin/xfree86 and VMS/DecWindows In article <793af3df.0207220403.7bc1238d@posting.google.com>, tadamsmar@aol.com (Tom Adams) writes: >Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote in message news:<3D387A58.2030004@nospam.please>... >> Tom Adams wrote: >> 3) In the other, telnet to your VMS machine. Now you have two chances: >> >> a) Do a SET DISPLAY/CREATE/NODE=yourpcname/TRANSP=tcpip >> b) $ CREATE/TERMINAL/DETACH at your discretion, or MCR DECW$VUE, or >> whatever Decwindows program you want to run. >> >> -OR- >> >> a) Login to the VMS box as SYSTEM >> b) $SET DISPLAY/CREATE/NODE=yourpcname/TRANSPORT=tcpip >> c) $ MCR DECW$STARTLOGIN >> > >Thank you, dear wizard. I had overlooked the TRAN qualifier during my >own perusal of the tomes, leaving me befuddled. > >But isn't an advance offering required so that the system will deign >to recognize the node's name "youpcname" when it arrives at the gates. > If I am not mistaken, I was told it in response to the chant "HELP >SET DISPLAY". But, it was in a language that I little comprehend, and >I did not understand how to cast the spell that causes the node's name >to materialize in some network database on my VMS system. The our >local wizard says that NCP is not >involved, since it only covers DECnet. > Since your using TCPIP translating the "yourpcname" to the correct IP address is handled as always by either DNS or the local hosts file. If the VMS system is setup to use DNS and "yourpc.domain" is setup in a properly configured accessible DNS server somewhere on the internet then you are all set. If not then you need to get "yourpc.domain" set up in the local host file on the VMS system. With DEC TCPIP Services / UCX this is done using the UCX set host/address=x.x.x.x yourpc.domain command. This should probably be enough to get it working with most PC based X-servers since they generally come with no security restrictions restricting who can connect. Most/all do though come with the ability to close down this gaping security hole - but you'll need to see the documentation for the PCs X server package. VMS workstations in contrast default to not allowiung any remote X windows connections - you have to specifically enable them. David Webb VMS and Unix team leader CCSS Middlesex University