I do it all of the time -- almost daily, in fact.  I have two group of
users who do it, in two different ways...

The first group uses Linux and its X implementation to let Linux act as a
fairly dumb X-Terminal.  The Linux machine does a "Xserver -query
netviewserver", and gets a Motif windows manager directly off the Netview
server.  These are a little bandwidth intensive, but very simple.  Plenty
of bandwidth helps.  We use use these for dedicated Netview screens, where
Exceed on Windows is just too difficult to support.

The others use Linux + KDE as their window manager, and rlogin to the
netview server and launch netview from there.  The only oddity is that in
some cases (and I'm not sure exactly what they are) the Keyboard gets
wrecked and won't accept input in the Netview windows.  The workaround I've
found is to kill the XKeyboard extension in the XServer configuration on
the Linux machine.  We use these for users who know how to support their
own linux system.

I've been thinking about putting in an enhancement request to have a Linux
client that will interoperate with Solaris or AIX servers.  I wonder if
anyone else would see benefit in it...

--D

Duane Waddle
waddle1 AT us.ibm DOT com
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..."  -- RFC1925


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All,

Does anyone know if you can run an X-windows NetView console session on a
Linux box yet? Being X-windows it seems possible, but then that's the catch
word, seems.

Regards,

Steve Elliott
Sr. Network Mgmt. Engineer
epicRealm, Inc.
214-570-4560

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