Netscape install

[Clive Lau]

Hi all,

I'm new to hp-ux, and I have just had the b2600 workstation.
I can start the Xwindows, but after install the Netscape 4.7, the Netscape prompted that the xserver refused, and can't run.
Please help!!

Clive Lau

[Bruce Ordway]

I had something similar. I had to use: xhost myhostname.mydomain.com

This was happening to me in the CDE though. Wasn't necessary in plain old X.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

CDE sits on top of the Xserver and so host based Xauthority is still applicable. try running xhost + in the terminal window before you run the netscape command. If it fails post the exact syntax of your error.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

to be able to connect to the a X server you need to configure 2 things:

1. access ( like others have mentioned xhost + / machine name)
2. location of your Xserver export DISPLAY=`hostname`:0

Hope this will help,

Gideon

[Clive Lau]

THANKS!! after type in the xhosts command, the Netscape can start.

But after that, I have anohter problem. When i type-in the DNS sever address (from the DNS resolver at SAM). the preformance of the workstation immediately degraded, and those xwindows application cannot start. And when i remove the DNS address, then all resume normal. Why??

Regards,

Clive Lau

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

Connections to the xserver are made over the network, if you alter the DNS configuration the resolving of you hostname to ip-adress can fail or take longer.

Gideon

[Alex Glennie]

Also maybe worth onsider editing your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to point to tell the O/S to search /etc/hosts first and if not found then use the DNS server ?