Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!birdland!rberlin From: rberlin%birdland@Sun.COM (Rich Berlin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: remote NeWS servers - request for info Message-ID: <70679@sun.uucp> Date: 28 Sep 88 20:19:45 GMT References: <643@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 41 In-reply-to: colers@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk's message of 26 Sep 88 10:52:42 GMT In article <643@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> colers@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Richard Cole) writes: > > Hi, > we are running NeWS 1.1 on SUNs. I have been trying to produce > output on a remote server to no avail ! I have followed the > procedure in the Sun NeWS manual; > > setenv NEWSSERVER `setnewshost xxxx` > say -b"Hi" Hi > > where xxxx is the id of the Sun running the server. > > I get the following message on the server > > Network security violation: > Rejected connection from yyyy > > where yyyy is the id of the mechine originating the message. > > I am new to NeWS so any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > -- > Richard Cole > colers@prl.philips.co.uk > NeWS (like X) maintains a list of "trusted" hosts, i.e. machines for which the server agrees to bring up windows. To make machine yyyy a trusted host, you must execute the command newshost add yyyy on machine xxxx. There are other options besides "add" to the newshost program; read the man page (in $NEWSHOME/man/{man1,cat1}newshost.1) for details. -- Rich