[foxboro] Remote FV on Solaris 10 station - summary

Hi all,

I've made good progress on Remote FoxView on my Solaris 10 stations.

Thanks to Ron Deen who sent a document detailing setup so that a P92 can
open a remote FV as user ia on the Solaris 10 box.

Thanks also to Ted Jirik who sent his Solaris 10 notes - very helpful!

I created the ia user for the Solaris 10 box.  Then I moved
/opt/ia/.profile to /opt/ia/go_dm, commenting out the jettool startup
and shutdown.  I'd previously enabled telnet on the box.  After these
steps I can telnet in from an AW/WP51, run the go_dm script and get a
remote FV on the 51 series box.

Next, I enabled XDMCP in the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf :
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
port=177
Now I can log in from a linux thin client using XDMCP.  It gives me a
nice graphical login window.  I can log in as fox, ia or root (after
enabling remote root login).  Logging in as fox it reminds me there is
another fox user logged in, but lets me log in anyway.  Then I get the
full GnomeWM.  Logging in as ia or root gives me an option under the
launcher to log out again - logging in as fox does not.

When I try to start FoxView from the Gnome wm in my xterm, I crash out
on font errors.  When I run /usr/openwin/bin/xset q to check my font
path, it shows only /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc - I'm assuming that's
the font path on my xterm since when I do the same thing from a terminal
on the local machine I get:
  /usr/fox/wp/fonts,/usr/users/fox/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/,
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
,
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
/usr/users/fox/.gnome2/share/fonts
Also, on the Solaris 10 box there are no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
directories.

It's worth noting that all messages from your X session are logged in
your home directory in the hidden file .xsession-errors.  Very handy.

The thin client I'm using doesn't give me the ability to modify the
XFree86 configuration to point to a font server, so it may not be too
useful with the Solaris 10 box.  I've got a couple more configurable
ones coming over for testing next month though.  

My thin client does work well with the P91, using RDP.

Currently I'm testing an Encore Electronics thin client which supports
Windows (RDP) and Linux/Unix (XDMCP).  It costs about $80 (with kbd and
mouse), and can be had from Amazon.com.  If I could figure a way to get
at the XFree86 configuration on this it would be a very useful little
box.  It does allow firmware upgrades, so maybe I just need to wait
until someone hacks the firmware.  My wishlist includes: Turn off the
screen blanking, point to a font server, and set 8 bit color.  Also
would be handy to bump the resolution up from 800x600 to 1024x768.

Regards,

Kevin FitzGerrell


-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Fitzgerrell, Kevin
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:55 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] Remote FV on Solaris 10 station

Hi all,
 

Anyone have any tips or guidelines for setting up remote FV session on a
Solaris 10 station (SOTM)?  The traditional ia/remote works fine on my
P91s, but is not set up on my P82, and I'm not having much success
starting a FV manually.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin FitzGerrell


 
 
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