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From: konczal@sunmgr.ncsl.nist.gov (Joe Konczal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Synchronous SCSI on 4.1.3
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:40:49 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Systems
	Laboratory

I recently bought a new synchronous SCSI disk, and hooked it to my Sun
4/380, which previously had no synchronous SCSI devices connected.
The first time I inquired, a Sun hardware "engineer" told me that the
4/380 (which contains a 4300 CPU board) was capable of doing
synchronous SCSI, but when I booted SunOS 4.1.1 with the new disk
attached, there was no synchronous SCSI message.  When I called Sun
again, a software "engineer" told me that my hardware was not capable
of doing synchronous SCSI, but after I told her that the hardware
"engineer" had told me that the 4/380 was capable of synchronous SCSI,
she told me that SunOS 4.1.1 does not support synchronous SCSI on the
4/380, but SunOS 4.1.3 does.  Unfortunately SunOS 4.1.3 does not
indicate whether it has found any synchronous SCSI devices like SunOS
4.1.1 does.

How can I determine whether my system, running SunOS 4.1.3, is doing
synchronous SCSI?
--
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Joe Konczal (konczal@ncsl.nist.gov)
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Systems Laboratory

"With friends like the Democrats, who needs Communists?"
From: marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM (Marc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SUN Processors speed
Date: 30 Sep 1992 20:16:09 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: porsche944

In article 1aatsuINNdcl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU, philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) writes:
>I have 57.X Mhz clock crystal on my 4/110. is it standard for SPARC
>machines to have a crystal *FOUR* times the actual speed, as opposed to
>the normal twice clock speed for certain computers.

Not true. The oscillator in the SS10 is only twice the speed of the CPU. If I recall
this is true of most or all of the sparcstations, 4200, 4300, 4400, & 600MP CPUs.

SS10/20  osc of 66Mhz   Processor 33Mhz
SS10/30  osc of 72Mhz   Processor 36Mhz
SS10/40  osc of 80Mhz	Processor 40Mhz

-Marc

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jaf@kepler.unh.edu (James A Fox)
Subject: Deskpack Drive SCSI connector pinout wanted
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: University of Nude Hamsters - Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:16:06 GMT

Could someone post or email a description (pinout) of the connector on 
a Sun Deskpack SCSI drive?  Need to build an adapter... Thanks muchly.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: carltonj@ee.ubc.ca (carlton joseph)
Subject: SUN Processors Speeds Question???
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:24:35 GMT

Hello Netlanders,

 I am wondering where I can get information on the speeds of some of the
 SUN processors. I am interested in:

   1) Clock speed of the processors. (like 60030 = 8Mhz in SUN 3/260)
   2) Number of clock cycles per instruction.
   3) Do all models with the same number (ie SPARC II) have the same
      processor in them (ie same clock speeds).

 The machine I am really curious about is the SUN 3/260 (old).
 Any help on where to find this information or the actual information
 will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Carlton Joseph
email: carltonj@ee.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne)
Subject: Hitachi monitor on Sun?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:34:37 GMT

I have a Hitachi RGB monitor that I'm considering to hook up to a used
SPARCstation (to be purchased). What if any video card would handle
this monitor? Monitor data: 55-65 Hz refresh, non-interlaced, single
scan, 1280x1024 pixels, 61-65 kHz horizontal scanning rate.
Monitor model: HM 4619 D-AA-2

Thanks. (Please reply by e-mail.)

Henning Schulzrinne
hgs@research.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Connecting 2 Sun's via AUI cable
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:19:07 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <dirkst.718311694@messua> dirkst@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg) writes:
>Is it possible to connect 2 Suns directly via some special cable between
>the AUI ports without a transceiver?

No.  The AUI interface is *seriously* asymmetrical; you can't make one side
look like the other just by rearranging wires, not in a way that will work
reliably under load.  There has to be electronics in between.  Most multi-
port transceivers can be used this way.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dirkst@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg)
Subject: Connecting 2 Sun's via AUI cable
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date:  5 Oct 92 19:01:34 GMT

Is it possible to connect 2 Suns directly via some special cable between
the AUI ports without a transceiver? This would save $$$ for a network
with only 2 Workstations.

Dirk
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Aachen University of Technology
email: dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Bootable drives for SLC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:00:15 GMT

dirkst@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg) writes:
>Does anyone have a list of bootable SCSI disk drives for the SPARCstation
>SLC? I am particuarly interested in the 3.5" ~ 1 GB drives from DEC, IBM,
>Fujitsu, ...
*----
Are there any that AREN'T bootable, even with appropriate
tweaking of nvram parameters?
--
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	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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From: gt1740a@prism.gatech.EDU ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: High resolution timer for Sparc-1s
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:20:46 GMT
Reply-To: ajay@cc.gatech.edu (Ajay Mohindra)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


	I have heard that SparcStation-1 comes with a built-in
high resolution timer. However, I have been unable to access it.
Has anyone been able to take high resolution timings on the Sparc-1s?
We are interested in taking timing measurements at the kernel level.

The hardware is said to have two high resolution programmable counters, one is 
being used to generate 100Hz clock interrupts. Does anyone has details
on these counters (chip name, data sheets)? Maybe one could program the second
counter for timing-purposes.

I know that the Mostek chip is used to provide the time-of-day service.
However it has a  resolution of 1 sec.

	I would appreciate hearing on this subject. Thanks in advance.

	-Ajay

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				Ga Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jaa@su19a.ess.harris.com (John Auer)
Subject: Sparc 2 Locking Up
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:55:51 GMT
Organization: Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

I've got a Sparc 2 here that recently has started locking
up (and as time passes, more and more frequently).  By
locking up, I mean the screen blanks as you are working,
L1-A doesn't work, must cycle power to recover.  No errors
are posted to the system message logs.  No landmark event
preceded the first lockup.

We had Sun replace the motherboard.  No effect.  I've run
the sundiag's.  It locks up (without any error messages)
while running them.  I've increased the # of processes in
the kernel config to 24.  No effect.  Removed all swap FILES
(partitions remain).  No effect.  Installed patch 100330-03
(which dealt with similar symptoms).  You guessed it, No
effect.

The programs where that it frequently locks up on run fine on
other SS2's, so I'm leaning towards a hardware problem (although,
stranger things have happened in software...)

Can anyone relate past experiences to this problem?
I'm running out of ideas (short of having replacing the whole
pizza box).

Thanks for any insight.  Email or post as desired.
John
jaa@mongoose.ess.harris.com
From: john@n7kbt.rain.com (John Opalko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How do you open a lunchbox?
Summary: The definitive answer
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:36:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: n7kbt.4577
Organization: Two strange people in Forest Grove, OR
Supersedes: <4553@n7kbt.rain.com>

In article <4553@n7kbt.rain.com> I write:
>How do you open a Sun lunchbox?  The pizza and dinner boxes are simple, but
>the lunchbox has me stumped.

The mystery has been solved, thanks to Matthew Stier and Tilman Sporkert.

Take a look at the upper rear corner of your lunchbox.  Look for a hole that's
ever-so-slightly different from the rest.  On mine, it's the fifth column
forward and the third row down.

See how that thing at the top of the hole looks suspiciously like the bottom
of a hook molded into the cover?

Take a small screwdriver, nail, etc. and press in at the bottom half of those
holes on either side of the box.  Pull upwards on the lid at the back.

Voila!

Again, thanks for the help.

-- 
John Opalko

john@n7kbt.rain.com  -or-  wi.5327@n7kbt.rain.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: peery@gluttony.tamu.edu (Alan Peery)
Subject: SPARCprinter out-of paper handling
Organization: /gluttony0/isc/peery/.organization
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:31:00 GMT

Hello netters,


     I have a problem. :-)

     When my SPARCprinter runs out of paper in the middle of a 
print job the printer queue does not suspend properly.  The print job
disappears from the queue, so the print jobs never completes, leaving me
with a pile of wasted paper.

     Also, even after I reload the paper I have to restart the queue
by hand using lpc.  This is obviously not the way I want to spend 
my afternoons...

     Any ideas?


Alan Peery
Institute for Scientific Computation
Texas A&M
peery@gluttony.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jim@davidge.com (James Bopp-Carty)
Subject: constant reboots
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 21:04:43 GMT

Has anybody seen a problem with the Sun 4/260
where it constantly reboots with the message:

Wrong PMG (Page Map Group) found for Virtual Address 0xf
Hardware refers this address to segment map 0x000001a5

PMG 0xf81b7e18 claims VA 0xf77c0000 is PMEG 0x000001a5 (hardware)
		
PMG 0xf81b7f98 claims VA 0xff940000 is PMEG 0x00000165 (kernel)

PMG 0xf81bf98 claims VA 0xff9400000 is PMEG 0x000001b5 (user)


If anybody could provide any information, it would be
appreciated.  It would be helpful to know if this 
a hardware related problem or something in the software/kernel
configuration..

jim@davidge.com 

-- 

Jim Carty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: andchan@newton.amath.umanitoba.ca (Andrew Chan)
Subject: Official upgrade path to Type 5 keyboard?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:31:44 GMT

Some of our users on IPC's for some reason want to upgrade to Type 5 keyboard,
is there an official upgrade path for such?  Or do they have to pay for
a brand new Type 5 and end up with 2 keyboards?

Thanks.
From: limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: High resolution timer for Sparc-1s
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:40:22
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: ouroborous
In-reply-to: gnu@hoptoad.uucp's message of 29 Sep 92 20:23:05 GMT

In article <35828@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
|   gt1740a@prism.gatech.EDU () wrote:
|   > 	I have heard that SparcStation-1 comes with a built-in
|   > high resolution timer. However, I have been unable to access it.
|   > Has anyone been able to take high resolution timings on the Sparc-1s?
|   > We are interested in taking timing measurements at the kernel level.
|
|   The timers are provided by the MMU gate array in the SS-1, SS-2, and
|   similar machines.  They are 32-bit counters that tick once per
|   microsecond in bit 10.  They can be configured to interrupt when they
|   hit a limit, and they are zeroed at that time.  One interrupts at level
|   10 and the other at level 14.  Last I saw, SunOS was only using one of
|   them unless you turn on kernel profiling (gprof).

As of 4.1.3, still true.

|   Look in /usr/include/sun4c/clock.h for details of accessing these
|   counters.  Inside the kernel, you should be able to just code
|   printf ("%u", COUNTER->counter10), etc.

but take into account that the counter restarts near zero after real
time clock (level10) interrupts when using these values. The number in
the counter should be "time since last level 10 interrupt should have
been initiated by the counter"; units are microseconds left shifted by
ten bits. If you are at SPLCLOCK or higher, you might observe the most
significant bit turning on; this means that an interrupt is pending.

|   The gettimeofday() system call returns time that is accurate to the
|   microsecond.  I believe it is the only system call in SunOS that uses
|   the full precision of these timers; the rest use the 100Hz clock
|   ticks.  I talked with someone at Sun about providing high speed access
|   to the high resolution CPU time for user code profiling a few years
|   ago, but I don't believe that his changes ever made it into a
|   production release.

As of 4.1.3, gettimeofday() is still the only system call that exposes
the microsecond time to the user.

NB. calling "uniqtime(tvp)" where tvp is a pointer to a struct timeval
will fill in the timeval with the microsecond precise time, taking
care that results are generally unique and monotonicly increasing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM (Marc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Is the bare Micropolis 1325 a SCSI or MFM drive?
Date: 3 Oct 1992 00:09:30 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: porsche944


Yes, The 1325's are 70Mbyte MFM (st506 interface) drives. They were interfaced to a 
SCSI<-->MFM adapter in the Sun3.

-Marc

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: brucek@uni.ins.com (Bruce Klein)
Subject: Help with moving modem
Summary: Why does this work on Sparc1+ and not Sparc2?
Keywords: telebit serial
Organization: International Network Services
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:01:29 GMT

A client of mine has an office in Japan with two workstations.
One is a Sparc 1+ running 4.0.3 and the other is a Sparc2 running
4.1.2.

This office also has a Telebit TrailBlazer Plus that is currently
attached to the 1+. This modem is used with tip to dial in to the
San Jose office.

They would like to move the modem to the Sparc 2, but have been unable
to do so. The problem is that on the Sparc 2, tip will connect but
there will be lots of garbage on the connection. Interestingly enough,
I am able to dial in to the Sparc 2 system with no problems.

This problem is very frustrating since they are using the same modem,
the same modem configuration, same modem cable, the machines are in the
same location, the /etc/ttytab & /etc/remote files are configured
the same, and the /dev/ttyd0 and /dev/cua0 entries are identical. As far
as I can tell, the only differences between the setups are the
machine itself and the operating system version.

Does anyone have any idea what might be breaking on the Sparc2?

thanks,

bruce klein
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From: QQ11@liverpool.ac.uk (Alan Thew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NFS mounting /var/spool/mail && file locking
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:21:00 GMT
 <JBRYANS.92Sep30153047@wren.csulb.edu> <1992Oct01.144521.22781@dcc.uchile.cl>
Organization: University of Liverpool

In article <1992Oct01.144521.22781@dcc.uchile.cl>, erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl
(Eduardo Rodriguez) says:
.....
>> So, how do you mount your mail spool -- soft, intr, or what?
>>
>
>intr. In soft it's easy to lost data (when NFS problems).
>
I'd *like* to use intr since a hard mount is so much hassle. How many
people out there using intr without any problems?

Thanks.

Alan Thew
From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: serial mux for a SparcServer 2
Date: 29 Sep 1992 15:11:41 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: deepthought.cs.utexas.edu

We would like to move our modems and printers from a Sequent to a
SparcServer 2.  We have about 16 modems (only four TrailBlazers are
faster than 2400 bps) and about 12 LaserWriters.  So we'd need at 
least 32 ports.  What products are available?

As best I can tell, the only Sun product is something called a
Sun S/PC (Serial/Parallel Controller) card.  Does this work well?

Are there any good third-party muxes for the Sbus?

Also, does anyone have any experience with the SCSI-to-serial
devices I see advertised (e.g. Central Data markets a SCSITerminal
server).  In particular, how do these impact performance of
disks on the same SCSI bus?

I guess I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience with hanging a
large number of modems off a SS2.  Especially if they can talk about
performance issues.

Thanks
Fletcher
From: ahalim@ics.uci.edu
Subject: Looking for old postings
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:15:43 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin


Would someone tell me where to get the archives for this newsgroup?
Thanks in advance.

/aha
From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: format.dat database - anyone ? [Was: Re: Format.dat entry for Micropolis 1598 1.2 G]
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:01:46 GMT
Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England.

ryan@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Ryan R. Ramsey) writes:

>1598-15
>: ctlr = SCSI \
>: ncyl = 1931: acyl = 3: pcyl = 1928: nhead = 15: nsect = 70: \
>: rpm = 3600: bpt = 41664: trks_zone = 15: fmt_time = 4: \
>: atrks = 45: asect = 8

>Hope that helps.

Is anyone keeping a database of format.dat enries - and howabout posting
a copy regularly... or making it ftp'able like the X386 modes database ?

I'll even do it if no one else wants to.

Peter G.

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Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
Phone: +44 71 352 7774		E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
From: james@rss.dl.nec.com (James Halbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: modem installation problems
Keywords: modem
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:31:38 GMT
Organization: NEC America

I'm having a problem getting a hayes 9600 baud
modem to behave when connected to a Sparc 2.
Dial In's initially work at 9600. For some reason,
a dial out using 'cu' seems to set the line speed
at 2400 baud. From then on, an incoming connection
can only be made at 2400 baud. This seems strange
in that the 'cu' being made never connects to another
modem (it's only being used to dail out).

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
From: hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Does lpd minfree work?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:37:52 GMT
Organization: Computervision Sweden

According to the man page of lpd, there is a note about
/var/spool/*/minfree

Has anybody been able to get this to work?
If so, how, please

Same applies to core dumps.

We are interested in SUNOS4.1.1

reg,
H}kan Sj|gren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: xcpgzm@archmage (Phil Meyer)
Subject: how many ethernets on a 690MP
Organization: Oryx Energy, Dallas, Texas.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:24:39 GMT


We now have 6 ethernet interfaces running on our 690MP.  The problem is
that one interface refuses to initialize upon boot, and we had one shut
down for no good reason during peak hours.  The sixth was unused,
thankfully, so all we had to do was activate the 'spare' with the IP address
of the interface that went south.  We have replaced one of the VME boards
already.

The Mother board sports le0, and we use it for a backbone connection.
We have two VME (not SUN) based Ethernets,
and we have three SCSI cards with a buffered ethernet on each of them.
The interfaces that are failing are the VME based ones.  These are made
by Interphase.

Any clues why the Interphase ethernet cards would be giving us trouble?
Is there a limit of interfaces?

lemme know...
From: ptanner@crow.eng.stratus.com (Philip Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: X-Terminals (correction to my last post)
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:09:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering


	First let me apologise for not using the correct terminology
in my first posting. When I said xterm, I really meant X-Terminals
(as in NCDs).
	Sorry....

						Phil Tanner
						ptanner@eng.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jaa@su19a.ess.harris.com (John Auer)
Subject: Re: OpenWin Screen saver - alt to xlock?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:03:25 GMT
Organization: Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

rpinder@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Rich Pinder) writes:
: On other systems there are screen savers that:
: 	
: 	1	automatically engage after x minutes
: 	2	display color animated graphics
: 	3	password protect re-entry
: 
: 
: Do you know of any shareware programs I could use under OpenWindows (tvtwm
: window manager)?

A nice one:  xautolock.  It lets you select the number of minutes of
inactivity required before activation, and calls the lock program
of your choice.  I use OW's xlock as my locker.

This one's available from a lot of places.  Check out archie for a
location near you...

Later,

John Auer
jaa@mongoose.ess.harris.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jk@ull.lab.jt.dk (Joergen Kjeldsen)
Subject: Re: SunOS Security Hole?
Keywords: security
Organization: Jydsk TELEFON
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:55:43 GMT

brian@panix.com (Brian Childs) writes:

>I think I have found a security hole in either SunOS or PC-NFS,
>here's whats happening:

>1. I am evaluating PC-Xview (a package which makes a pc emulate an
>   X-server).  
>2. I have configured PC-Xview to access my sun using RSH
>   as user 'brian'
>3. I logon to the pc as user 'rd'

>not only does PC-Xview magically open a window onto account 'brian' without
>any type of authorization, but it will do the same for every account on the
>machine.

>None of the accounts have a .rhosts file, and hosts.equiv has only only line
>containing a '+' in it (which allows users of the SAME account password free
>access to any other machine on our lan).

>as a test, I logged directly onto our sun server as 'rd' and tried 
>'rsh workstation -l brian' and got a permission denied!

>my question is why is it that PC-Xview can do it, and SunOS can't

>by the way NCD (the makers of PC-Xview) and SUN are too busy pointing
>the finger at each other to be any help.

>ANY Ideas would be appreciated.

>	Brian

Hej Brian,

at our site we also use PC-Xview as X-server.

I thik your security problem can be solved, by using either /.rhosts or
/etc/hosts.equiv.

At the other hand, you could at this point have al line in /.rhosts that
points out your PC?.

Best regards 
Joergen Kjeldsen
R&D, Jutland Telephone Co.
Denmark

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