Exceed

[Kevin_107]

Maybe someone has seen this before...I need to create a Exceed session (v7.1) on my Openview machine. However, when trying to run the exceed session. I get an error stating "unable to intialize on connect to desktop. Check your $HOME/.dt/errorlog. I can connect via this method from all other servers. But I cant on my OPenview...any ideas !?!?

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

here's what's needed :

a) openview system and pc ideally should be on same subnet : as a rule xdmcp requests don't go out past the local sub-net : exceed maybe configurable wrt I'm not sure.

b) the PC and hpux server need to be aware of each other ie nslookup for ip & hostname resolve correctly backwards and forwards.

c) the openview system will need to be running a window manager to reply to exceeds xdmcp request : usually dtlogin or vuelogin. ie CDE filesets need to be installed and a dtlogin process 9daemon) running on the server.

If the above checks out I suggest you post the contents of the errorlog and run CDE's diagnostic -> dr_dt (/usr/contrib/bin/X11) and also comment on what happens when you move $HOME/.dt out of the way and whilst logged out of CDE : I suspect you most likely have a name resolution problem .... ps is root also affected ?

pps HP Personel only : whoever moved this post into the openview product error please feel free to call me as to why I have chosen to move it back.

[Kevin_107]

When doing a Nslookup on the IP address it doesnt resolve to hostname. how can I get round that ?!?! Do I need to modify my nsswitch.conf.

I have also attached contacts of dr_dt

[Alex Glennie]

If it were me I'd ensure permissions on /etc/hosts and the other networking files nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf are set correctly, the dr_dt output is usually good at picking these up.

next I'd ensure my /etc/hosts file has an entry for the pc, the local unix server and the loopback address. Then I'd edit nsswitch.conf to point to use files before going to use say either DNS or NIS .

good luck !