XWINDOWS ON RISC AND PC'S

ITEM: RTA000029379

QUESTION:                                                                       
My customer's environment is as follows:                                        
                                                                                
RISC Model 530 Server, Ethernet, with PC clone users running an                 
XWindow emulator.  Currently on their 530 Server, they only have                
an ASCII display and run text based applications.  So, for users                
directly logged in to and attached to the RISC they do not  need                
AIX Windows....but...their PC users do.                                         
                                                                                
So my question is, can the PC users get an AIX login, say by telneting          
and then use their resident XWINDOWS software (say Hummingbird) to              
create the XWindow environment for them, without having AIX Windows             
on the server, or is there some interconnection that has to go on               
between AIX Windows and the emulators like Hummingbird?                         
                                                                               
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A:  In order for the proposed configuration to work, you will need              
    to have some (but not all) of AIXwindows on your RISC Model 530             
    Server.  As a MINIMUM on the RISC Model 530, you will need to               
    install:                                                                    
      X11rte.obj                                                                
      X11rte.ext.obj                                                            
    No other interconnection has to go on between AIXwindows and the            
    emulators.  The Hummingbird software on the PCs should include              
    all necessary TCP/IP support.                                               
                                                                                
    These components are needed because the PC users will be sending            
    requests for Xclient services.  The Xclient needs to be able to             
    locate the necessary subroutines in its libraries.  The entirety            
    of AIXwindows is not needed on the RISC Server, since for each PC          
    using its own resident Xserver software, this software should               
    have its own libraries to support the applications being run                
    on that particular PC.                                                      
                                                                                
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This item was created from library item Q620458      CBMRW                      
                                                                                
Additional search words:                                                        
AIXWINDOWS CBMRW ENVIRONMENT IX MAR93 OZNEW PC RISC RISCSYSTEM                  
RISCXWIN SOFTWARE XWINDOWS                                                      
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               



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Dated: 11/1996 Category: RISCXWIN

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