Configuring Xterminals on a serial port

[Dan Ryan]

Hi,
I've been asked to replace some of our networked connected telnet sessions with locally connected Xterm.

I'm looking for direction on how to configure an Xterm on a serial port.

HOUX 11.0

[Bill Hassell]

Do you really mean: connect an Xterminal device to another computer using a serial connection? Most people don't have that many years left to wait for the data to show up...

It will take many minutes simply to transmit a desktop change. The performance will be awful. Anyone who has used a laptop from a hotel room and tried starting an Xwindow program like sam or swinstall will never do that again.

[Louis Masucci]

We use a application called netstation available through HP. This application resides on one of your servers. We us HP Entria II for xterminals who talks with the netstation software. We have ~ 100 Xterminals connected to the Netstaion server. This works fairly well and is a cheap method to allow users to connect to the server.

[Dan Ryan]

Thanks for the input.

Here's the rest of the story.

We have some very long running UNIX batch jobs
that a launched fron telnet sessions. The telnet access is provided by PCs. The PCs are networked to our HPUX servers. More than occassionally the PCs will crash or the network will fail. This causes the batch jobs to fail.

So I set a dumb terminal on a serial port thus avoid the PC and network outage issue.

OPS would now like a Xterminal (an NCD thinclient) on a serial port. I only know how to configure network connected Xterminals.

[Alex Glennie]

the netsation s/w mentioned earlier is used to boot HP xterminals over a network. A flash dimm card can be purchased to put the directive files etc locally onto the xterminal and allow them to boot without the need to communicate with a hpux system.

I suspect NCD xterminals have a similar feature : see http://www.ncd.com

I've never known anyone connect an xterminal via a serial port (don't mean it can't be done though !)

SLIP or PPP maybe your way forward on this but if its an NCD xterminal I'd check the NCDware Admin guide off the above site or send the qus to NCD support for a definitive answer ?