jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (11/03/90)
Has anybody been able to get MacX to work on a Mac on a Localtalk network behind a Fastpath 4? MacX works fine for me through my Ethernet card, but when I try to use it with MacTCP reconfigured to use Localtalk it doesn't work - NCSA Telnet, SU-MacIP, Eudora, and NetNews all work, but not MacX. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
makmur@paul.rutgers.edu (Hanz Makmur) (11/04/90)
>Has anybody been able to get MacX to work on a Mac on a Localtalk >network behind a Fastpath 4? Yes, I did. It works just fine. >NCSA Telnet, SU-MacIP, Eudora, and NetNews all work, but not MacX That is weird. I dont have this problem at all. I even tried it using 2 floppy disks MacPlus in a crowded net and things just works fine. ----- Hanz Makmur Rutgers University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (11/09/90)
Thanks to everybody who responded to my query about getting MacX to work on a LocalTalk network behind a Fastpath 4. The problem was that I was getting assigned a dynamic IP address which had no entries in our name server tables. That is, my Mac had no name. Evidently X requires that the server have a domain name. I fixed the problem by simply adding entries in our name server tables for all of the ip addresses in the range reserved for dynamic assignment to Macs. I just made up "dummy" names for these addresses: e.g., mac157.acns.nwu.edu for address 129.105.113.157, and so on. The UNIX gods here at NU thought this was strange, but there's no doubt that this was the problem. Hope this helps someone else. By the way, MacX performance on a LocalTalk network with my IIci is not so hot, but I expected that. xterm, xrn, and xedit were sluggish, especially when redrawing windows, but they seemed to be usable. I'd probably get pretty annoyed if I was stuck using it this way all day though. Performance when I use my Cabletron twisted-pair Ethernet card seems to be pretty good. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu