Re: eXcursion X Server Question

From: Martin Kirby (martinkirby12_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: 18 Nov 2003 01:41:05 -0800

George,

It sounds similar to a problem report I heard before. In that
case the cause of the problem was that the firewall had enabled
X-Windows traffic only one way. I think they had enabled it for
the initial connection on port 6000 but not for the responses
on the system allocated port. Any chance that is the problem?
Or it may not have been the firewall, it may have been the routing,
I'm not well up on networking.

I suggest you try logging in to the system by other means - e.g. Telnet,
and then doing a:

SET DISPLAY /CREATE/TRAN=TCPIP/NODE=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
RUN DECW$EXAMPLES:ICO

ICO is the best application for reporting connection problems.

Martin Kirby
DECwindows Engineering

Hauser <Hauser@Fauske.com> wrote in message news:<A1EA7E17D10A2D4691F78432FDB5DE4757057F@server4.FAUSKE.COM>...
> We have for some time used an old version (V3.0.571 May 22, 1997) of
> eXcursion for X-Windows communications on our LAN (TCPIP) to connect from
> PC's with various flavors of MS-Windows to Alpha VMS V7.3. It works great.
> In fact, by running
>
> @SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP.COM,
>
> I can even get the "New Desktop for VMS" working on my PC screen.
>
> We have also successfully used the product to connect through the Internet
> over dial up lines. Also works fine but somewhat slow. Now the question: A
> user recently upgraded from dial up to a DSL line at home with a router.
> When trying to make the same connection as before the application (in this
> case a Terminal) never appears on his screen. With Logging enabled he sees
> :
>
> X Application Startup Information rexec: connection succeeded
> X Application Startup Information OK
>
> At the VMS system console I see:
>
> Message from user INTERnet on DS10A
> INTERnet ACP REXEC Accept Request from Host: nnn.nnn.n.nn Port: nnnn
>
> This pretty much the normal set of messages, but no application appears even
> after a very long wait.
>
> The router has a firewall and is set to allow TCPIP, FTP, and X-Window
> applications to pass. The user has even tried turning the firewall off with
> the same results. Has anyone else out there had a similar problem and found
> a solution?
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> George Hauser

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