On Jan 3, 1:49 am, JF Mezei wrote:
> Any suggestions on the best way to do the equivalent of:
>
> SET DISPLAY/NODE=xxx/transport=TCPIP
> CREATE/TERMINAL/DETACHED/NOLOGGED
>
> Automatically whenever a workstation becomes available ?
>
> I am thinking along the lines of a detached process that attempts to
> ping the workstation at regular intervals and when the workstation
> appears, it does the CREATE/TERM command (is there a callable interface
> for this ? or the only way to create a DCL process to execute the command ?)
>
> The question becomes: how do you detect if that decterm has been
> terminated (at which point, you start to poll the workstation again
> until it becomes responsive).
>
> Or should I focus on doing this from the MAC's side, adding whatever
> command are needed in its boot scripts to "tell" the VMS box to create
> the detached process ? (RSH or whatever).
>
> What I like about the "ping until there is a response" is that the mac
> would not have to authenticate itself against the VMS machine to cause
> the create/term/nologger command to execute and I would then login
> normally to any account I would want. If I use the RSH mechanisms, it
> means that the mac needs to authenticate itself to the VMS box and I
> suspect this would be a security issue of keeping VMS passwords on a
> MAC, right ?

JF,

Use XDMCP to initiate a X-Windows session from the MAC side. You can
use the "throw the session to the workstation" solution, but on recent
versions of OpenVMS TCP/IP, there is support for the XDMCP protocol.

What version of TCP/IP is running?

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com