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Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

 
Rick Retterer
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Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Leon,

What I meant to say was are you sure that pcx$server.com is in the correct place and that the file is not corrupt, and that you have created the necessary object for it within NCP as per the header information within the file itself?

$!* 1. Login to the other VMS system using the SYSTEM account.
$!* 2. Rename or delete any older versions of PCX$SERVER.COM. For example:
$!* RENAME /LOG PCX$SERVER.COM;* PCX$SERVER.OLD;*
$!* 3. COPY /LOG node"user pass"::SYS$SYSTEM:PCX$SERVER.COM SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]
$!* 4. SET PROT=(S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RE) SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM
$!* 5. NCP := $NCP
$!* 6. NCP DEFINE OBJECT PCX$SERVER FILE SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM -
$!* NUMBER 0
$!* 7. NCP SET OBJECT PCX$SERVER FILE SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM -
$!* NUMBER 0

Cheers,
Rick
- Rick Retterer



lross
Occasional Advisor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Did you also check to ensure that you have the PCX$SERVER.COM command procedure in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]?

yes, PCX$SERVER.COM resides in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] and has World:RE privs
lross
Occasional Advisor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Ok. give me a sec to do that :)
lross
Occasional Advisor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Ok. This is what I did:
1. Renamed PCX$SERVER.COM to PCX$SERVER.OLD
2. Copied the file you sent me to SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM
3. SET PROT=(S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RE) SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM
4. NCP := $NCP
5. NCP DEFINE OBJECT PCX$SERVER FILE SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM NUMBER 0
6. NCP SET OBJECT PCX$SERVER FILE SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]PCX$SERVER.COM NUMBER 0

No errors whatsoever :)
Rick Retterer
Respected Contributor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Very good.

Enjoy eXcursion. It's a little bit limited in terms of Color Depth (8bpp) and a few other things... but for a rudimentary remote PC Xserver it will work very well.

eXcursion is on it's way to being a retired product, and most of us now use either ReflectionX, eXceed, or Xwin32 on our PC's for remote X Windows. ReflectionX and eXceed provide more functionality and a "TrueColor" visual type (32bpp) and allows for multi-headed display support if you ever need anything with more features.

Take care,
Rick
- Rick Retterer



lross
Occasional Advisor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

Thanks so much for the help Rick. I really appreciate it. I will check out some of those other products also.

The reason I installed eXcursion is because I used to use it at my old job.
Hoff
Honored Contributor

Re: Excursion using DecNet with OpenVMS 8.2 and XP

You might want to let your management know that this path and this environment will only going to get harder and more involved and more expensive to maintain.

HP PATHWORKS 32 is a retired product, per the HP web site.

DECnet is not seeing particular new work, nor new applications, nor any OS ports. And it's getting expensive to maintain a DECnet-specific network infrastructure. (Yes, DECnet-Plus over IP can potentially help keep some of the network costs lower; you can use an IP transport.)

Windows XP is headed toward retired status and that'll involve a (reportedly somewhat gnarly) upgrade to Windows 7 sooner or later.

Might it be time to move to Xming or other such X Windows client for Windows, and over to IP-based and ssh-based networking for communications?