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Stephen Moore (stephenm@bundabergcity.qld.gov.au) wrote:
: I wish to provide public access to the internet at the local library and
: because I want a "secure" system, I will use a secure (keep the public
: out) operating system. I have experience with Windows NT and to a lesser
: degree Linux (far lesser).

: My main interest with linux is to use some old pcs running linux as X -
: Clients to a Alpha running Digital unix. I realise and have used
I think you have your terminology wrong here. An X-Server is the one that
has the actual display. An X-Client is a programme that displays on the
X-Server.
: netscape on linux however the speed, disk, memory just isnt there. I can
: fire up the Alphas X manager on my linux box with

: X -query Alpha

: but can't seem to telnet in and then run netscape on the linux box. Is
: there a solution to this?

I am not sure what the X -query command is but I have a Linux net at home
with X-Servers running in Linux, WinNT and Win95 and they display what is
being run on another linux box quite well. Before you try to run X apps
remotely you must tell the X-Server that it is to accept connections from
other machines otherwise they will not be allowed to display.
'xhost alpha' from within a shell in X windows will allow access from
programmes running on machine aplha to display. Also on the machine that is
running the X-client you must specify the display variable.
'DISPLAY=displaybox:0.0' and then 'export DISPLAY' to tell it to display on
displaybox (insert your names instead).

Some of this may be different under DEC unix but they should be similar