Re: [cobalt-developers] Raq3 and Xwindow surprise with Oracle

["Max Hugen" <maxhugen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help... I'm finally understanding how this x-window actually
works. We decided to try VNC, because it can be used via a browser and the
internet. For anyone that's interested, VNC is available at
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/. Their comments re browser is under
"Getting Started", and its reproduced it here:

-- Using a web browser as a viewer
--
-- The VNC servers also contain a small web server. If you connect to this
-- with a web browser, you can download the Java version of the viewer,
-- and use this to view the server. You can then see your desktop from any
-- Java-capable browser! (unless you are using a proxy to connect to the
-- web). The server listens for HTTP connections on port 5800+display
number.
--
-- So to view display 2 on machine 'snoopy', you would point your web
browser
-- at:      http://snoopy:5802/
--
-- The applet will prompt you for your password, and should then display the
-- desktop.

We found that the VNC installation went smoothly, although we had an issue
with Xauth which resolved itself <phew!> after we installed
xfree-3.3.5-3-test.tar.gz.

Last night we were able to successfully log in to the VNC x-window server
from the browser, so now we just have to try running a program through it.

We're back on track to our real gaol, which is to install Oracle8i.

Many thanks, Max Hugen        ;-)




----- Original Message -----
From: Herb Rubin
To: Max Hugen
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Raq3 and Xwindow surprise with Oracle


Max,

All you need to do is identify what IP address you have for the current
session
and
set your DISPLAY variable after you telnet in.

Go into a DOS window and type netstat -r, you should see your IP address on
the
first line
under interface. But, if this machine is Win 98 how are you going to display
X
Windows?
You will have to load an X Windows server program before you will see
anything.

Herb


Max Hugen wrote:

> We're trying to figure out how to use x-window to access a Cobalt via the
> Internet - it is co-located at an ISP, so whilst we can telnet and ftp,
how
> do we provide DISPLAY with a dynamically allocated IP address at our
remote
> Win98 machine?
>
> Any suggestions would be really welcome...
>
> MTIA, Max Hugen
>
> >Message: 13
> >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:40:22 -0800
> >From: Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Organization: Pathfinders Software
> >To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Raq3 and Xwindow surprise with Oracle
> >Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >You should be able to set your DISPLAY envi>ronment variable to a remote
IP
> >address that does
> >have X Windows and it should work
> >
> >DISPLAY=192.168.1.5:0; export DISPLAY
> >
> >Herb
>
> Jan Horak wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We've just bought new Cobalt Raq3 and what surprise - we was told we
can't
> > install X window now, which we need for Oracle installation !
> > Does anybody know something about that?
> >
> > Thanks for any information
> >
> > Jan

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