X windows on 11.00

[Mustafa Motiwala]

Hi,
Can anyone please walk me through on setting up XWindows for remote connections on HP-UX 11.0?
I need to set up the HP box so that i can use Xwindows to remotely login from PC based terminals. PC's are Linux and Windows (cygwin) using XWindows. Any help will be appreciated.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

There is no Xwindows concept in HP. It provides CDE (a free s/w). If you have installed CDE on remote machine as well in a local machine and exceed in your PC, then login to local machine using exceed, telnet to the remote machine and export the display.

[Michael Tully]

As long as the system has the CDE filesets installed and the 'dtlogin.rc' process is running you should be able to connect.

# ps -ef | grep dtlogin
root 6879 6862 0 Nov 16 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin
root 27874 15914 0 16:53:36 pts/t1 0:00 grep dtlogin

# swlist -l product | grep CDE
CDE B.11.11 HP-UX CDE User Interface
CDEDevKit B.11.11.01 CDE Developer Kit
PHSS_24091 1.0 CDE Base APR2001 Periodic Patch
VUEtoCDE B.11.11 HP VUE to CDE Migration Tools

[T G Manikandan]

Fisrt check whether the CDE bundles are there on your machine.
#swlist -l product|grep -i CDE
If present,
check whether the dtlogin daemon is running on the hpux machine.If not

Just do a

#/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
#/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e
#/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

check your /var/dt/Xerrors for any error messages during startup.
If things are ok,
On your PC install a X-server software like xmanager

download xmanager from
http://download.com.com/3001-2340-6128455.html

Install it in your Win PC.
DO a start--->Programs-->Xmanager--->Xmanager

you will get the xdmcp broadcast from the unix machines.Select the ip to which you are to use.

Thanks

[Mustafa Motiwala]

Hi,
I tried doing :
X :1 -query 192.168.2.88

where 192.168.2.88 is my HP box. all i got in return was a big black screen, with a big fat hour glass. when i tried indirect, i got a blank grey dialog box with which i could do nothing. any suggestions? I have CDE installed. Note that i said i wanted to remotely log in to the HP machine throuh X, and NOT on the local machine. On the local machine CDE is working ok. Also, exporting the DISPLAY to my machine doesnt work, coz the product we use packs its own fonts and has trouble if the display is set to another machine. I need the whole Desktop.
Thanx.

[Wodisch]

Hi Mustafa,

two points:
1: the hourglass is already sent from the HP box, so there *IS* some connection. Use "dt_dr" test and such
2: start the X-font-server (xfs) on the HP box, be editing "/etc/rc.config.d/xfs" and then execute "/sbin/init.d/xfs start". Now tell your local X-server to use it with "xset +fp tcp/HPBOX:7000", where "HPBOX" would be the IP-address or hostname of the HP box

HTH,
Wodisch