Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:33208 comp.windows.x:30247 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!drago.tgv.com!mcmahon From: mcmahon@drago.tgv.com (John McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: DECWindows over the network Message-ID: <1990Dec6.003628.14228@news.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 5 Dec 90 22:29:25 GMT References: <1990Nov30.225314.9083@cs.widener.edu> <10669@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Dec4.225800.11357@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov (USENET Administration) Reply-To: mcmahon@drago.tgv.com Organization: TGV, Incorporated in Santa Cruz, California Lines: 36 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-5 In article <1990Dec4.225800.11357@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>, ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes... : :Can I ask that the exact details of setting up TCP/IP as a transport :mechanism for DECwindows be added to the FAQ for both of these groups? : :it is *not* as simple as doing set/transport= as a user :on VMS. there is a precursor phase, which is configuring the VMS node :to know about TCP/IP as a transport mechanism for DECwindows before any :user can do this, which involves creating or modifying : : SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM : :And as I understand it this is *not* done for you if you install X :"out of the box" from digital. It may be documented already in which :case a pointer to where in the VMS manual set would be useful. *Sigh* Depending on how the TCP/IP software is implemented, and when it is started up (in relation to DECwindows) modification of this command procedure may not needed. What really needs to be added to the FAQ is the following: 1) What TCP/IP packages actually have an IP transport module ? 2) What version of the package ? 3) What is the name of the transport module (for /TRANSPORT) ? 4) Installation issues 5) User issues Feel free to fire the answers to me, I'll synthesis a list for the FAQ. (By the way... who is maintaining the FAQ nowadays ? I forgot) John 'Fast-Eddie' McMahon : MCMAHON@TGV.COM : TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TGV, Incorporated : : T GGGGGGG V V 603 Mission Street : HAVK (abha) Gur bayl : T G V V Santa Cruz, California 95060 : bcrengvat flfgrz gb : T G GGGG V V 408-427-4366 or 800-TGV-3440 : or qrfgeblrq ol znvy : T GGGGGGG V