re mac x and sun openwindows benj ossa hq nasa gov benjamin jones writes i ve run into a bit of a snag while trying to get mac x up and running and would appreciate any responses from anyone who may have seen this problem on my local network i have a number of macs suns and sgi machines i have installed macx mactcp on all of the macintoshes and can run xclients on the sgi machines all the live long day the problem is when i try to run an xclient on any sun i setup the command in macx then execute it nothing happens i don t even get any command output now i thought it might be a routing issue but i can run remote xclients on the suns from my sgi machines as well as vice versa i can also run remote xclients on sgi machines that are not on my local net here but the above problem holds true for non local suns as well i tried to send this as private mail but mail to benj ossa hq nasa gov was rejected so here it is here is an extract from the readme file that comes with macx users of remote commands with sun machines may find that their remote commands appear to do nothing and there is no output from the sun machine this is due to a feature of the sun rexecd network daemon which quietly disconnects from requesting machines that are not known to the sun s network address etc hosts or nis hosts database to successfully use remote commands with a sunos based machine there must be an entry in the network address database for the macintosh which is running macx stan kerr computing communications services office u of illinois urbana phone email stankerr uiuc edu
