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- From: pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan)
- Subject: openwin refuses connection
- Message-ID: <pln.713644668@egret1>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: 12 Aug 92 18:37:48 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- I just ran into a strange problem. A user was trying to run
- Xview clients (cmdtool, mailtool) on a remote Sun and display
- them on a local OpenWin server. The connection would be
- refused each time. We moved to another workstation and switched
- from OW 2.0 to 3.0 with no improvement. Trying similar operations
- with a different remote host worked OK. I finally traced the
- difference to the way xhost treated the remote host.
- When I issued the command 'xhost pulsar.hsc.edu', it would
- reply in the usual way 'pulsar.hsc.edu being added to access
- control list'. But when I ran xhost to see the list,
- the host would appear in the form of a numerical IP address,
- rather than by name. This doesn't happen for any other
- host I've tried. Nslookup finds this host with no apparent
- problem.
-
- The workaround is to add this host to /etc/hosts on the NIS
- server and rebuild the maps. I would like to know what's going
- on, though.
-
- The setup: SunOS 4.1.1, Sparkstation IPC and 1+, Openwin 2 and
- 3 on this end, Openwin 2 on the other end, name resolution by
- NIS (with DNS enabled in the Makefile).
- --
- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
- * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
- * Stanford University *
- * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret1.stanford.edu *
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