Xbrowser not working

[Antalia]

Hi all,

I have another problem here, Xbrowser is not working. I've been reading the other posts here on enabling and running dtlogin, but seems not helping in my case. I have CDE running from VGA directly, but xbrowser just showing gray screen.

Does anyone know what is going on here?

Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Normal causes include:
1) Incorrect permissions/ownership on the .dt folders and files within.
2) Font server needs a restart /sbin/init.d/xfs restart
3) Network is not permitting proper broadcast due to network segmentation and or router configuration.

Take a look a the log files including /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for more clues.

SEP

[Antalia]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the reply. Restarting xfs server didn't help. I checked syslog.log and the only thing it is complaining about was CIM server. It was saying that cimserver is not running and couldn't start. I'm not sure if that's something has to do with Xbrowser. This is 11.31 system.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

did you try to turn off the firewall on your PC ???

if the ssh is working, try to connect with X-forwarding or export DISPLAY to your PC and of corse start the passive Xserver on you PC.

mikap

[Antalia]

Hi

How to turn off the firewall? SSH is working fine. and where do the DISPLAY setting to be modified?

[Antalia]

I have another HP-UX box here and it's Xbrowser working fine.. If I knew which files to compare and where to fix the other one. But still shows up gray screen. What else can be done?

[Mel Burslan]

Since you said ssh is working, I am assuming you are using putty on your windows workstation to ssh to this server. Otherwise, the instructions below does not hold true and you have to provide more information about your setup for further help:

Here's how to start ssh tunnelling between your windows workstation running PuTTY and anothr server behind firewall(s)

open a new putty session
on the left panel click on X11
then on the right side check enable X11 forwarding
make sure X-display location is localhost:0
make sure on the same screen MIT-Magic-cookie-1 is selected
go back to the left pane and click on session (one on the top)
put your hostname
(optionally)save the settings for subsequent use.
click open
login to your server as usual
make sure an x-emulator (like reflection-x) is running on your PC
run x-browser from this terminal window

hope it helps

[Antalia]

Hi Mel,

I did everything you said, thanks for such a through reply, however I didn't get how to run xbrowser from a terminal? I just logged in to my hp server via putty and I am in shell, so how do I run xbrowser from my server's shell?

I guess I'm missing something.

Thanks,
An

[Mel Burslan]

aaah, if I am understanding you correctly, what you want to do is to browse the x-applications served by this server. That application, what you call x-browser, must be a part of your x-windows emulator, not something on the server. I am not quite familiar with x-applications, so I can not give you correct directions how to work it out but I have a gut feeling that it is do-able.

If you can tell what your final destination is, using this x-browser, i.e., what is the application you pick and choose using the xbrowser, I may be able to help you start that application without the help of the browser. Or when you say x-browser, are you referring to something like, firefox, mozilla, netscape etc ??

[Mel Burslan]

Talk to your network or firewall team and ask if these ports are open:

Port 177 ; traffic from PC to server ; Protocol UDP (adn TCP if possible)

Port 6000-6010 ; traffic from Server to PC; Protocol TCP and UDP both

if there are any blockage, sweet-talk them into removing the block, i.e., opening this port.

At this point XDMCP shuld work.