lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) (12/01/90)
I just installed Ultrix 4.0 from CD onto a DECstation 5000 model 200. Our other machines (model 3100's, 2100's) are running UWS 2.1. Since the 5000 only has one disk on which the operating system was installed, I NFS mounted the large /usr/users filesystem from the 3100 onto the 5000. However, it took me a couple of days to figure out the "access denied" messages that I was getting were because NFS appears to be case sensitive. We are using BIND to a campus-wide name server that appears to return names in all uppercase. So, is NFS supposed to be case sensitive or is it some other system feature? I also ran into a problem when I first logged in to the 5000 in that it complained and could not start up a DECterm window (remember, I am using the .Xdefaults from the /usr/users I NFS mounted). I think it said that it did not know about (maybe can't access?) display :0.0. I was able to fix the problem by going into the customize security menu and adding the name of the 5000 machine to the list. This seems very odd. I was not able to add some machine names (maybe because they're not in my mini /etc/hosts file?) Did I miss something in the installation? The 3100's using the same .Xdefaults doesn't have this problem. Another thing is that there is no /etc/X0.hosts file so the access to the display is currently not restricted. If I make up the file, how do I change access dynamically? The old version of the os had the xhost command, I can't find this anywhere under Ultrix 4.0. Did I overlook something in the installation? Yan. -- )~ Yan K. Lau lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu The Wharton School ~/~ -Sheenaphile- 128.91.11.233 University of Pennsylvania /\ God/Goddess/All that is -- the source of love, light and inspiration!