Questions about getting VMS DEC Windows to talk tcp/ip.

[Ian MacPhedran,2B13 Eng.,4832]

>From article <1990Feb13.214240.1309 at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, by sam at ccsn2.uucp (Sam Moore):
> 
> 
> Did anyone have any luck implementing the gatewayd.c program that
> comes with Ultrix DECnet? Has anyone modified VMS DEC WIndows to
> use CMU TCP/IP for its transport?
> I am trying to get a VMS X11 application to work for our non DECnet
> workstations.
> 
> Sam Moore
> sam at cave.ncsu.edu 

It works pretty much as advertised in the README file in the same directory.
The only problem is that the DECnet object name for X connections is
WRONG. (And this is probably your problem also.)

The DECnet object for display number # on the machine your X server is
running on is actually X$X# and not X#, as said in the documentation.

The line about defining the object would be:
ncp set obj X$X2 file /usr/etc/xgate2 type stream default user guest
(Remember to use \ to escape the $ from the shell.)

While I'm writing this, I'd like to pose a query of my own. I used the
reverse of this to send TCP/IP based X11 stuff to my VAXmate, which
is running Version 2.2 of the DWDOS server. This works from Ultrix
machines (from which I could use DECnet anyway, so this is no
great win) but when I try this from other UNIX machines running X11,
Release 3, the VAXmate sends back the string:

``Protocol version mismatch''

What version is it looking for?

Thanks.
Ian.
 
Ian MacPhedran, Engineering Computer Centre, University of Saskatchewan.
2B13 Engineering Building, U. of S. Campus, Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA S7N 0W0
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