greg@cityzoo.acs.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain,Lib 007a,3929,6445148) (11/06/90)
Hi, I hope someone might have a clue about this,
I've been trying to hook up a 19" ncd xterm over the net to a
hp9ks300, model 370. I've got it to boot up fine, but I can't get the ncd to
fire up xdm automatically upon bootup from the hp. I have to telnet over
to the host and the restart xdm, (update the /etc/Xservers file) and this works
fine.
However, when the xterm boots up of the bootcode, it comes up with a
setup menu. And one of these submenus is the 'XDM parameters' menu. In this
menu you cen tell the ncd about the server that it needs to get xdm from and
it will go off and get it. (Without any modifactions to any of the config files
on the server. The server just recieves some XDMCP packets from the xterm and
consequently fires off the extra xdm for the xterm.)
This works fine if the machine is a Pmax (Decstation 2100, running
ultrix 4.0), the problem is that the hp needs to be the server and it
never responds to the packets from the xterm. Running xdm in debug mode
proves this, the hp never prints out any sort of ack or request. While the
DS prints out oodles upon oodles of response and will fire up xdm for
the xterm.
Both machines (DS and HP) are running the mit distribution of X11R4.
Any response would be appreciated, Thanks,
greg
Greg Sylvain
Academic Computing Services
Systems Programmer
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BITNET : GREGS@UMBCse@ikp.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) (11/09/90)
... same problem on a HP 9000/835, HP-UX 7.0, MIT X11R4 pl.18,
using Tektronix XP-23 terminals with X11R4.
I use xdm in the pre-XDMCP mode (displays are listet in ../xdm/xdm-config),
but even that doesn't work reliable.
Once I logged out but got no new login window, I changed the terminal
setup to broadcast XDMCP requests. Immediately the xdm on an 80386
running MACH adopted my X terminal and opened the login window.
But I want to login into my machine, not the 80386 that seems
to love my terminal :-).
After I put the X fonts on the 9000/835 I realised, that I was unable to
NFS mount them from the X terminal. (I could NFS mount them on a Sun 3/60,
so the export seems ok.) I copied the fonts onto the 3/60 and the terminal
had no problems to find them there.
Its very annoying to have to rely on another machine because I'm unable
to make the fonts available from the HP...
Any ideas ?
Stefan
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Stefan Esser, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, W. Germany
se@ikp.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.192.9]