Running VNC on I/A Series:
I/A Series UNIX - You must either have perl installed in order to run vnc on
an I/A Series UNIX box or install a hack to get Xvnc running. The
"vncserver" executable is actually a perl script that starts Xvnc. If you
want to share a real display (like the :0 or :1) then you have to replace
the incumbent X server for that display with Xvnc. This would put you in
what Invensys TAC would call "a non-supported configuration" (I hear you all
trembling, but I gotta agree with 'em on this!). I have had easy success
using vnc on more recent UNIX OSes (WOW!...more recent than 2.5.1!). With
vnc, you don't need to dedicate a CRT to the UNIX machine. This can be
handy.
I never bothered with vnc for I/A UNIX on account of not wanting to hack the
startup scripts.
I/A NT - have used VNC all over the place for both NT and I/A-NT (I am
using it to write this). IMHO vnc rules on NT.
h
Harry Forbes
Invensys Process Systems Marketing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corey R Clingo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:42 PM
> To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
> Subject: RE: Portable PC
>
> I tried VNC awhile back on an AW51E. It worked pretty well, but I ran it
> in
> daemon mode, and it had a tendency to die unexpectedly when no one was
> connected. I plan to do more experimentation on it when I get some time.
>
> As a side note, I frequently use the Solaris VNC client to take control of
> my
> desktop PC so I can read e-mail, look at FoxDoc (since its updater doesn't
> run
> on Solaris -- grrr), etc. while "in the hole" doing configuration...
>
> Corey
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> Fitzgerrell Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/28/2001 05:18:21 AM
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> Please respond to Foxboro DCS Mail List
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> Alex,
>
> That Mobil Workstation was pulled from the product lineup in January I
> believe. I had several interested customers down here, and when I
> asked I was told that it had been discontinued because of low sales,
> and that COT solutions were available that weren't fundamentally
> different so we would no longer offer a Foxboro branded solution.
>
> Out of curiosity, have you ever tried VNC on an I/A system? I see
> there is a VNC client for both Palm and WinCE, and a VNC server for
> Solaris 2.5.1. I imagine a Handspring Visor or PocketPC with a
> wireless ethernet card running a VNC client would be a pretty
> convenient tool.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin FitzGerrell
> Foxboro NZ
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