[Simh] DECwindows

[David Holland]

Presuming "standard" X server arguments.

-ac                    disable access control restrictions

(ie: anyone/anywhere can connect to your display.)    Hopefully your not
running exposed in the internet..

David


On 11/19/06, Tim Pinkawa <timpinkawa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/19/06, Paul Hardy <pghardy at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Thank you Tim, for those helpful instructions - My Windows laptop is now
> > able to be a pretty good simulation of a VAXstation!
> >
> > I'm running SIMH on a Windows (XP Media Center) laptop. I downloaded and
> > installed a minimal Cygwin/X as you suggested.
> >
> > On the VAX side, I had previously got TCPIP configured and started with
> all
> > the usual services. I already had DECwindows 1.2.5 installed (because I
> > wanted to run some old software that was built under Motif 1.2, whereas
> > DECwindows 1.2.6 has Motif 2.0 I think). The only configuration I had to
> do
> > in the VAX side was to copy XACCESS.TEMPLATE to XACCESS.TXT in
> > SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$XDM].
> >
> > I could then use the startxdcmp.bat file that comes with Cygwin to bring
> up
> > an X-server and a login window to the VAX. I logged in and was away.
> >
> > I needed to use different Xwin startup parameters, because the software
> that
> > I wanted to run (like much VMS Motif stuff) expected to have an 8-bit
> > pseudo-color visual type (settable colour palette), rather than 32-bit
> > Trucolor which is the default.. So the changed lines in startxdcmp.bat
> > became:
> > SET REMOTE_HOST=192.168.0.200
> > %RUN% XWin -ac -fullscreen -depth 8 -query %REMOTE_HOST%
> >
> > Out of interest, what is the -ac switch to XWin? I couldn't see it in
> the
> > documentation.
> >
> > I then downloaded Netscape Navigator V3.03 from the HP site
> > (http://h71000.www7.hp.com/ebusiness/technology.html) , and I now can
> browse
> > the web (at least to any sites which work with a 10-year-old web
> browser!).
> > Is there any more recent browser available for VMS on VAX (Mozilla,
> Firefox,
> > Opera, etc)?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Paul  Hardy
> > Email: paul at the hardy.demon.co.uk domain
> > Exiled in Redlands, CA, USA
>
> I'm glad they were useful. I'm not entirely sure what -ac does, other
> than I know that it doesn't work without it. :) It has something to do
> with access control. When you connect to XDM without -ac you get an
> error like this:
> AUDIT: Sun Nov 19 13:21:22 2006: 2940 xwin: client 1 rejected from IP
> 192.168.1.104
>
> When I first set this all up and got that error message, I just copy
> and pasted it into Google and I found out about -ac. XWin says the
> following:
> -ac                    disable access control restrictions
>
> Thanks for the Netscape link, I didn't know that was still available.
> Unfortunately I don't see any more modern browsers for VAX.
>
> Tim
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