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- From: gaffur@belenos.pci.upmc.edu (Ehsan-ul Gaffur)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: HELP: server connection
- Message-ID: <lfgap8p@openlook.Unify.Com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:03:09 GMT
- Sender: news@Unify.Com
- Lines: 51
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- In message <1993Jan22.102513.16501@cs.utwente.nl> you write:
- > I am currently running Open Windows server from the network
- > (let's call it machine N). Let's call my machine machine A.
- > We got recently a SparcStation 10 (lets's call it machine B)
- > which stands in our room.
- > On machine B, Open Windows has been installed on a local
- > disk. I suppose it would be faster for me if I run
- > OpenWindows from machine B than from our network machine N.
- > Is it so?
- > If so, then I think I have two possibilities and I would like
- > to know how to do it.
- > First: do not run the server on my machine and just
- > use the server on machine B and just display on my
- > machine. How do I have to do it? I mean, what parameters do I
- > have to set (DISPLAY etc.).
- > Second: run the server on my machine. Then I would like to
- > start the server from machine B, and not from machine N. How to
- > do it?
- >
-
- I'm sure you'll be bombarded with responses, but here is my two
- cent's worth:
-
- The SPARCstation 10 (machine-B) will be a faster server so you
- ought to mounts its disc from your host (machine-A). Place an
- entry in machine-A's /etc/fstab that looks something like this:
-
- machine-B:/usr/openwin /usr/openwin nfs ro,soft,bg 0 0
-
- Of course, machine-B must have /usr/openwin exported so it must
- have an entry in its /etc/exports file that looks something like
- this:
-
- /usr/openwin ro,access=machine-A,machine-C,machine-D,...
-
- On machine-B, one must issue the command "exportfs /usr/openwin",
- then on machine-A, the command "mount -vat nfs". Of course one
- must have root privilege to do these commands.
-
- Once machine-B's /usr/openwin directory has been mounted, you
- may envoke OpenWindows normally:
-
- machine-A: setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/openwin
- machine-A: $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin
-
- I hope this helps.
-
- Ehsan-ul Gaffur
- Systems Analyst
- Biostatistics Center
- Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
-