AIX

Hi Porter,

Do you know how to get the AIX CDE Login screen in VNC?
I would like to continue using this method as I have already installed the VNC Server on the AIX box and it will be easier on the Desktop side as I can just distribute the VNC Viewer executable to whoever wants to view the box, as opposed to installing Cygwin which can be tedious sometimes! (I know the Dept have said they only need one box accessing the server but I know that once they see it can be done they are going to be asking for it!)

When you connect to the AIX box using VNC what do you see?

If you have an logged in X session then under who's account?

Can that user use "Xnest"?

I open VNC Viewer and type in the name of the AIX Box and the display number (example: SERVERNAME:1)
I then get prompted for username and password, I type these in and then I get a window displaying my Desktop (on the window I have 3 programs running with titles: XClock, XTerm and X Desktop)

I don't know what XNest is, but it does not seem to be installed on the AIX box.

Cheers

Hello everyone,

What a nightmare! I think I have sorted it out now!
There is a file on my home drive on AIX (created by VNC under /home/MYUSER/.vnc). The file is called xstartup and all I had to do was remove the last entry 'mwm &' and replace it with '/usr/dt/bin/dtsession &'

Well, that's what I think anyway, at least now I'm getting CDE when I connect to VNC. The only problem now is that when I try to log off, CDE is crashing and will not close the session. I have to close the VNC window!

Any takers?

Thank you Porter so far for all the help!

Why all this trouble?
You can install WSM on your Windows machine an connect to the AIX box.
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/wsm/index.html

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...tall_remclient

NO WAY!
That would be even better!

Thanks Ebbi, I'll have a look...

You should be able to replace most of that with an

Code:

exec /usr/dt/bin/dtsession

at the end. You want the xstartup to end when you select exit from CDE.

The ../mwm & is a hangover from when you have to start applications and window manager separately and have session end with the final xterm.