govindar@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Rajasekaran Govindarajan ) (12/02/90)
Hi, I have a SUN SPARCstation IPC running SUNOS 4.1 and supports openwindows (X11/NeWS). I also have 3 X-terminals : they are all NCD-19. I would like to get some pointers for the folowing questions. (these may be too simple for a lot of networkers... ) 1. Is X11/NeWS (openwindows version 2) networkable? (if I phrased it wrongly, can I run this openwindows over the network). Is it possible to run a display manager from my Sparc station? and have the server running for the 3 X-terminals so that one could run client programs from the X-terminals. These X-terminals have their own ip addresses and are on the ethernet; so is the sparc ipc. 2. If it is possible to do the above, where do I start? Apart from the default window manager olwm (OpenLook WM) is there any other wm runnig on this? Is there a display manager available on X11/NeWS for such purpose? 3. The option -noauth seems to play an important role in all this, but the man page about this is very confusing. is -noauth in any way similar to xhost on X11? I know that item #1. is possible for X11. (we have it running with xdm--X display manager). Since X11/NeWS is compatible with X11 we want to have it this way. My openwindows on sparc is running perfectly alright (with the console as the diplay unit). I am not very much worried about sunview compatibility, since I will not be running this with or on sunview. I very much appreciate any pointers in this direction. I will summarize the responses and post it later. Thanks a lot......... -sekar m. govindarajan sekar@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu