CDE on HP-UX

[Michael Thomas_1]

New to HP-UX here, Can you run CDE through the WEB Console? The WEB-Console is the only console we have on the server. I know how to set the xhost and DISPLAY. I tried running dtlogin but it did not start CDE. I know probably simple but I don't know how to get it started.. Thanks!!

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Michael,

>>>New to HP-UX here,

Welcome aboard!


>>>Can you run CDE through the WEB Console? The WEB-Console is the only console we have on the server.

NO, its a JAVA appliance, only a BROWSER (IE & NS) will work.


live free or die
harry

[Steve Steel]

Hi


You need to read up on CDE via www.docs.hp.com.

Webconsole is not attached to a graphics card so it will not run.

/var/dt/Xerrors is the CDE error file.

Check tail /etc/rc.log


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

dtconfig -e will enable CDE after next boot.


If you have no console
cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers:

Comment out this line.

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


Steve Steel

[Alex Glennie]

The best you can hope to acheive is to access the server via cde remotely from a display on an xterminal,PC Xemulation or other Xwindows env.

CDE looks at /usr/dt/config/Xservers file to tell it whether it should start locally ... in your case unless you have a graphics card and associated monitor attached it won't matter what the entry is I suspect .....

To access CDE from the remote system you will need dtlogin (CDE daemon) to be running on the server.

[Michael Thomas_1]

Thanks All!! New Operating System is teaching old dog new tricks..

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

If you have your CDE running on the server, but you dont have a PC with Xclient you could use VNC.

As you use WebConsole you should have a Javacapable Browser. Then you could install VNC on the Server and use the VNC Java Client to connect to it.

Have a look at: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html

But keep in mind that VNC installs a second independent Xserver on your System. I don't know if this is somethin you want, but it works.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[David Snider]

Another solution for you would be to download cygwin and get it installed on a Windows box. Cygwin is a linux like environment for Win32. Once installed, you can separately download XFree86 for it as well. We use it for remote CDE sessions here with much success. Once both packages are installed, it is just a matter of launching xwin.exe -query -from ..

Best of all, it's FREE!!

The installation instructions are very good. Good luck..

http://www.cygwin.com
http://cygwin.com/xfree/