[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[FredK]

The XDM that currently ships with TCPIP does not provide for any security, 
even MIT Magic Cookie.

The DECwindows group plans to take over XDM sometime this year, and bring it 
up-to-date.  We believe that remote thin-client access will become more 
common with users as network speeds increase and latency declines.



"Joseph Huber" <joseph.huber at NOSPAM.web.de> wrote in message 
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> tadamsmar wrote:
>
>>> ¨snip*
>>
>> The remote node is a PC running some version of Windows.
>>
>> What do I have to have running on the remote node to make this work?
>
> Under the assumption XDM is acceptable security-wise,
> then for a "one-click" to VMS login solution, I propose to get the free
> Xming X11 server.
>
> http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
>
> To setup, start the Xlaunch program, select XDMCP mode, enter the node 
> name
> of the VMS node to connect, finish by saving the coniguration on the
> desktop.
>
> From then on, the VMS login will be started by double clicking on the 
> saved
> Xlauch config file.
> Depending on the windows version, the Xlaunch start can be put into the
> startup folder or setup as a windows service, so it starts automatically 
> at
> windows boot.
>
>
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> Joseph Huber, http://www.huber-joseph.de