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- In article <2k0ekp$92@usenet.rpi.edu> kellip@vccnw14.its.rpi.edu (Patrick D. Kelliher) writes:
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- >From: kellip@vccnw14.its.rpi.edu (Patrick D. Kelliher)
- >Newsgroups: alt.winsock
- >Subject: Re: xwindemo-how to make it work?
- >Date: 17 Feb 1994 18:56:25 GMT
- >Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
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- >Distribution: world
- >Message-ID: <2k0ekp$92@usenet.rpi.edu>
- >References: <2jtmgv$i7o@news.doit.wisc.edu> <1994Feb17.161914.25661@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- >Reply-To: kellip@rpi.edu
- >NNTP-Posting-Host: vccnw14.its.rpi.edu
-
-
- >I too download xwindemo about 2 weeks ago and have been at a loss at how to
- >make it work. I think I have tried all the combinations but nothing seems
- >to happen.
-
- >In article 4371 Ata Etamadi gives a very good description of what should
- >happen. I followed all of those steps but it just isn't working.
-
- >Let me explain my system. I am using a 486 running norton desktop and
- >winsock 1.0 Rev A using a SLIP connection to a dedicated ( my own) IP
- >address. WINQVTws3.96 works pretty well although a get GPF errors when
- >I try to using mail and news. The telnet
- >and FTP parts are working most of the time. I think the problems with
- >QVT are from the host side because it is a large university network and
- >things are quite slow.
- >BTW any help why the GPF keep appearing would be helpful
- >Anyway, once a SLIP connection is established, I open Xwindemo. I have
- >tried the XDCMP broadcast function and nothing happens so I am assuming
- >there are no machines on the local network running xdm. We have hundreds
- >of computers on campus it is hard to
- >believe that none of them have this xdm feature installed; but anyway.
- >So now I try to connect to a few Suns and RS6000 machines on campus, I use
- >the rexec shell and type in the IP address I want to contact. I make sure
- >the address is in my xhosts list. I enter my login and for the command
- >line I enter things like:
- > xterm -display my.ip.address:0.0 &
- > setenv DISPLAY my.ip.address:0.0; xterm -display my.ip.address:0.0 &
- > etc.
- >I have also tried using other numbers after the :0.0, :0.1, :0.2,:0.3,1:0
- I have tried using signle window mode, both turning on display 0.1 option
- >etc.
-
- >What happens when I try to open a session:
- > In the message box of xwin I get login messages, then a get a
- >couple warnings about the colors white,red,and black not being defined on
- >my local pallete (or something like that) then noting. If I turn the debug
- >feature on, I get a lot of requests
- > for about 30 seconds then nothing. If from winsock I turn the IP flag on
- >I can see talk back and forth between IP address for about 30 seconds, then
- >nothing. The connection is still good because I can repeat procedure or
- >open QVT etc and everything is OK.
-
- >My questions:
- > Jerome Pier (article #4725) mentioned a brief message about .rhosts
- > file on the host side. What is in this? Is it needed?
- > How long should it take for a xterm window to come up using a slip
- > connection running at 14.4k? While it is coming up I should still
- > see traffic back and forth correct?
- > What window setting should I use? Single -virtual root- or none
- > at all?
-
- >This looks like a great demo package if I can get it working.
-
- >Any Help would be much appreciated
-
- >-Patrick kellip@rpi.edu
-
- Firstly, how about putting some line breaks in your mail message.
-
- Secondly, contact the system manager of the unix system you are trying
- to run XTERM from, and ask him to set up the system to give allow you
- to run X programs. Seeing that you have a fixed IP address, you should
- be able to use your PC name rather than IP address. Getting X to work
- is more about getting the Host machine setup correctly.
-
- Don't worry about XDMCP for the start. In fact, I can't imagine using
- it over Ethernet let alone over SLIP.
-
- Thirdly, open a telnet session with the remote host. Start XWIN. Then enter
- the following command via telnet:
-
- xterm -display my-name:0
-
- or
-
- xterm -display my_ip:0
-
- An XTerm should open within about 30 seconds. If it doesn't you should
- get an error message in your TELNET window. If it doesn't work,
- the error message should indicate what the problem is.
-
- When you get this working, try using REXEC from XWIN.
-
- At the start, don't use single window mode, as you then need to start
- a window manager. An XTERM should run in as standard Windows window.
-
- The palette error messages worry me. Ideally you should be running
- in 256 color mode (or higher). Lots of X Applications throw up if they
- can't get enough colors. 16 color mode sucks with X.
-
- Lastly, SLIP connections are normally too slow to run anything but the
- simplist X applications. XTerm should be OK, but I wouldn't try running
- TEAMWORK or INTERLEAF or any other major X Application unless you're
- a absolute masochist.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:12:23
- From: ronwes@halcyon.com (Ron West)
- Message-Id: <ronwes.6.00073511@halcyon.com>
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
- Sender: ses
- Subject: Trumpet News Reader
-
- Is there a known problem with Trumpet for Winsock with a news server with lots
- of groups (5000+) where you can't subscribe to some groups because Trumpet
- doesn't seem to know about them? The documentation hints that there may be a
- problem in this situation but adds something about a problem when you have low
- memory. I don't think this is the reason as I have 8 megs (should be enough?).
-
- My appologies to everyone if this subject has been covered already but I just
- got most of my Winsock clients running this week and I am new to this group.
-
- Are there any workarounds for the above? I am able to add the desired groups
- manually to the news.ini and news.grp files and subscribe. Any other fixes
- for this? Newer version? I am using version 1.0a.
-
- Thanks,
-
-
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