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From: olin@saturn.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Subject: Using DECstations as X terminals
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Organization: Cornell University School of Chemical Engineering
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 15:28:24 GMT

I posted a question on this subject a few weeks ago, but I only got two
replies, and both of them seemed to indicate that they mis-understood my
question, so here goes again...

I have a room with both DECstations and VAXstations. The DECstations are
hardly ever used as workstations. I would like the login dialog box that
they display to come from our VAXcluster, so that the DECstations may be
treated as X terminals. I don't ever want the login dialog box to come from
the DECstation. The DECstations would still of course be accessible via set
host, telnet, etc. I have had a large number of experiments with different
ways to set this up, but with no luck so far. Both DECstations and the
cluster run both DECnet and TCP/IP. Does anyone know how to do this? I
really really need more VMS seats, and using the DECstations as X terminals
will save me from having to buy real X terminals. A solution requiring the
user to log into an account on the Ultrix system as an intermediate step is
NOT acceptable. Thanks!

-steve


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