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Article #2361Re: Slip and -NXHost
From: Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:50
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:50
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In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com> writes: >> >>I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is >>connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and >>not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!) >> >>I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip. And the two machine that are connected are >>both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo). When I >>start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g. >> >> /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost slipserver & >> >>I get the following familiar message: >> >> DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host slipserver >> >>I have set the preferences (on slipserver) to be a public window server >>and I have logged out and back in since changing the prefs. I must be missing >>something really obvious. Has anyone ever tried to do this before? Any help >>is greatly appreciated. The window server on the machine you want to display needs to be public, not the server (remote) machine. At lease that's my understanding... -- Ronald Pomeroy "The Internet is just a giant petri dish" Advanced Micro Devices CAM Applications Group rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!rtech!amdahl!amdcad!dvorak.amd.com!usenet From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News) Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas References: <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:50:36 GMT Lines: 33