[Info-vax] OSes

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-19 23:49, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote in message
> news:n7md8u$vrp$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...
>
>> I would suspect that your Xservers by default do not accept connections
>> from anything but localhost. And no, you do not need anything more done
>> for ssh to tunnel. If I remember right, ssh simply notices that you have
>> the DISPLAY variable set to something, so it will setup a tunnel and a
>> fake X server on the remote machine, and just forward the traffic to your
>> local X server as needed.
>>
>> You don't have to go all basic and start X through startx. If you get it
>> up and running as part of the normal desktop setup, that is just as good.
>
>      Ok where's the DISPLAY variable? I really don't use displays much. What
> do I have to do to VMS? I am getting ready to reinstall from scratch. I will
> set
>
> set xq mac=xx-xx-... as it should be. What do I type after

That would appear to be a command to set some parameter in simh... simh 
is not involved in the discussions here, so skip that part. If you have 
VMS up and running, and the network is functional, then you have 
finished setting up simh. Nothing more to do or see there.

> 'shh -X'   ?

You do not use ssh -X. Didn't we already cover this? :-)

I doubt any ssh under VMS will actually implement X tunneling.
If you want to run X client programs on VMS, you'll have to set the 
DISPLAY properly, under VMS.
As Rob Brown pointed out, in VMS use, at the DCL prompt, type "SET 
DISPLAY ...". And you point the DISPLAY variable at the machine you are 
physically sitting at, where your X server is running.

And then, back at the machine where your X server is running, you type 
"xhost +<vmsmachine>", to allow the VMS machines X clients to talk to 
your X server.

	Johnny

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