From: Andy Harper [Andy.Harper@kcl.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:25 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: VMS Session Using Exceed


On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:08:09 +0100 Robert Taylor 
<taylor_robert@jpmorgan.com> wrote:

> Hi, I can connect to my VMS host using Reflections but I would prefer to
> use Exceed if possible.
> Has anyone done this ? Specifically I'm interested in the connect
> command.
> 

  There was some traffic about this recently on info-vax.

  Exceed is best used with the XDMCP facility but not all VMS tcp/ip
  stacks support an XDMCP server.  If you have one, configure exceed
  to use it.  If not, you'll have to configure it to start up the
  appropriate windows session manager using 'rexec'. You can rexec
  whatever command line is needed to start it up.

  If you need the exceed with XDMCP details, I've attached them below.

  Sorry, dont have the other non-XDMCP details immediately to hand.

  [NOTE: it might be useful if these were added to the VMS FAQ ???]

Regards,

Andy Harper

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Andy Harper

Systems and Mail Manager
Kings College London


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EXCEED WITH VMS

Requirements:
   VMS:
       TCP stack supporting XDMCP server (multinet, process)
       XDMCP server must be running.

   PC
       Exceed

Procedure:
   Start Exceed's Xconfig
   Select the 'Communication' option
   Change the 'mode' item to 'XDMCP-Query'
   Press 'Configure'
   Change 'Connect Host' no name/address of VMS system
   OK everything

When you next start the exceed X-server, you will connect straight 
into the VMS system with the normal Xwindows login screen.