[Info-vax] Mapping a PC screen to DECWindows (part #2)

Wilm Boerhout w6.boerhout at planet.nl
Tue Jan 20 12:42:37 EST 2009


JF Mezei vaguely mentioned on 20-1-2009 18:23:
> DTL wrote:
> 
>> \Xming.exe: client 4 rejected from IP 192.168.1.200
> 
> Am not familiar wth xming. But...
> 
> With most X terminal software, you need to allow connections from remote
> hosts, usually by adding the IP of allowed hosts.
> 
> Rememeber that it is the systej running the application which connects
> to your X terminal, and it is the X terminal which decides whether to
> allow the connection or not.

In other words, can you ping your PC from your VMS host? If ping works 
in that direction, you can work your way up application alley, so to speak.

I have no trouble running Xming 7.3.0.26 on Vista against Simh VAX, no 
special setup with respect to access / security on the PC.

/Wilm



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