CDE on headless server

[Freddie C]

Hi,

I have a HP-UX server running without keyboard/mouse/monitor so I can't have CDE running on it. I'm wondering if there's any chance of getting a CDE on my Windows PC using Reflection X by way of XDMCP direct connection to this headless server?

[Fat Scrape]

Yes, you can, if CDE on hpux is started.

See /etc/rc.log:

Start CDE login server
Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S990dtlogin.rc start"

Fat

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Yes every chance.

nb you will need dtlogin running locally on the server but I suspect this is the case, having no mouse etc will only affect the local console (which you don't have), regardless on a server the Xserver file is most likey commented out by default.

Only other thing to ensure is hostname resolution works between PC and server.

[whiteknight]

Freddie,

CDE is very sensitive without mouse or keyboard.

It will not work.

WK

[Freddie C]

Thanks for the quick replies!

Alex pointed me in the right direction. It's a combination of disabling the local Xserver by commenting out this line in /etc/dt/config/Xservers:

* Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0

before I can execute the command "/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start". Otherwise I'll be getting incessant beeps from the server