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From: bferguso@ics.uci.edu (B. Ferguson)
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Subject: Re: Problems running motif from Ultrix onto a VMS workstation.
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Date: 16 Sep 89 01:49:38 GMT
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In article <1820@bacchus.dec.com> klee@decwrl.dec.com writes:
>In article <100920112@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin
>Ellsworth) writes:
>> > 3) setenv DISPLAY to <nodename>::0.0
>> 
>> has one too may colons in it.
>
>Actually, this is correct.  According to Scheifler et al's DP book (p.
>11), UNIX clients should specify DECnet connections by using 2 colons.
>
>I suspect that the original poster's problem has to do with setting the
>list of allowed hosts on the machine running the server.  Is that
>server initialized when you try to connect to it?
>
>Ken Lee
>DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
>Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com
>uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee

 Sorry, but the security may not be a problem, unless I missed something.

We set the security on the running session, AND have been able to 
control the screen with twm under the same scenario.

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

Bruce.