mjs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Spitzer) (01/07/89)
Does anyone know how to make the Visual 640 X terminal get its fonts through NFS? The documentation is, well, lacking. I've gone through the setup menus and told it to use NFS, given it a host to use, given it a font path, and added the terminal's hostname to /etc/exports on the appropriate host. If I try xlsfonts after doing this, I get something like: NFS error on server mentor.cc.purdue.edu: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/: Permission denied NFS error on server: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/: Not connected in the error message window. Has anyone gotten this to work? (My firmware is dated Nov 23 1988, if that matters) Thanks. -- Michael J. Spitzer Purdue University Computing Center mjs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu pur-ee!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mjs
smithrd@inteloa.intel.com (Randy D. Smith) (01/10/89)
In article <807@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mjs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Spitzer) writes: >If I try xlsfonts after doing this, I get something like: > >NFS error on server mentor.cc.purdue.edu: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/: Permission denied >NFS error on server: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/: Not connected This says to me that you've got the Visual doing all it can do. >Has anyone gotten this to work? (My firmware is dated Nov 23 1988, if >that matters) It works for me, but I admit that I initially got the same error message until I was explicit about the precise location of the fonts. Not knowing NFS, I had thought that I merely had to export the file system containing the fonts, but noooo...., in our setup it wanted to know the exact directory containing the fonts. Keep trying, but focus on NFS and not the Visual; it works very well indeed. The reward is worth it, in that xlsfonts will grow positively weary of listing the enormous number of fonts that will become available to it :-). -- Randy D. Smith BiiN (tm) An Information Systems Company ...uunet!tektronix!inteloa!smithrd (503) 696-4660
milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) (01/10/89)
In article <807@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, mjs@mentor (Mike Spitzer) writes: >Does anyone know how to make the Visual 640 X terminal get its fonts >through NFS? The documentation is, well, lacking. ... >Has anyone gotten this to work? (My firmware is dated Nov 23 1988, if >that matters) >Michael J. Spitzer Purdue University Computing Center >mjs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu pur-ee!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mjs I haven't tried xlsfonts with it, but I have had the terminal load fonts without any trouble. I didn't have any problems setting it up, really. I do seem to recall having a little trouble with symbolic links, though -- I believe I had to give the terminal the actual pathname for the font directory, rather than have it follow symbolic links. Perhaps that's the problem? ---Walter
raj@paris.ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson) (01/11/89)
I hate to say, "It works for me", it does! :-) I also hate to mention the obvious, but I forgot it myself the first time around. Have you re-ran "/usr/etc/exportfs -a"? Also, you have to be able to translate hostnames to IP addresses but if you can use "telnet" to a named system then that's working ok. Note that the software on the Visual is X11 Rev. 2 (unless you're one of the lucky Beta Test sites Visual graced with the newest Rev. 3 stuff) so you don't have a "fonts.dir" file and you can't do partial matching on font names. (By the way, has anyone heard anything about availability of a 19" version of the Visual X terminal? My main complaint about the Visual 640 is lack of real estate.) Richard