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- From: whitem@jester.usask.ca (Matt White)
- Subject: Re: DNET remote connections
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.200919.27853@access.usask.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:09:19 GMT
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- David Levi (levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu) wrote:
- : I am trying to use DNET to open a remote connection on my Amiga from
- : a sun4 at school, using the dsoc client. I've got DPIPE: installed on
- : the amiga, and have dnet started on the amiga and the sun4 (the connection
- : is running), but when I run dsoc, I get the message:
- : DOpen: No such file or directory
- : Is there something I need to do with the DNETHOST environment variable,
- : or am I doing something else wrong? Thanks for any clues.
- : --
- : -Dave Levi levi@cs.utk.edu
- I had much the same problem, and after some research, I found that Dnet
- doesn't always use the same filename for the socket that it creates when
- it starts. Do a directory of your $DNETDIR and look for the newest
- socket. For example, my $DNETDIR looks like:
-
- srwxrw-rw- 1 whitem 1 Aug 21 08:32 DNET. P@hP@A@Cp
- -rw-rw-rw- 1 whitem 72 Aug 21 08:32 DNET.LOG
- -rw-rw-rw- 1 whitem 243 Jun 15 19:59 dnet.servers
-
- The DNETHOST environment variable must be set to the suffix of the
- filename of the socket, including the space that is put in there. For
- example, for the above socket, I would have to do:
-
- setenv DNETHOST ' P@hP@A@Cp'
- ^
- Note the space!
-
- The default that it expects is just a space (setenv DNETHOST ' '), so what
- I usually do is rename the socket to 'DNET. ' so I can use it normally.
- There is probably an easier way to do this, but I haven't had the time to
- look at the source and try to figure it out or change it.
-
- --
- Matt White | whitem@jester.usask.ca
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- Dept. of Computing Services | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
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