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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- References: <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:50:36 GMT
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- In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com>
- writes:
- >>
- >>I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is
- >>connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and
- >>not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!)
- >>
- >>I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip. And the two machine that are connected are
- >>both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo). When I
- >>start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g.
- >>
- >> /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost slipserver &
- >>
- >>I get the following familiar message:
- >>
- >> DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host slipserver
- >>
- >>I have set the preferences (on slipserver) to be a public window server
- >>and I have logged out and back in since changing the prefs. I must be
- missing
- >>something really obvious. Has anyone ever tried to do this before? Any help
- >>is greatly appreciated.
-
- The window server on the machine you want to display needs to be public, not
- the server (remote) machine.
-
- At lease that's my understanding...
-
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