Up: Stanford Linguistics Computing Pages

Getting Connected

Stefan Kaufmann
kaufmann@csli.stanford.edu

In General...

Using X-windows from one of the new departmental machines is easy. There are only a few steps involved:

Run a program that will be able to talk to the server on the other side. In Windows: Exceed. On the Mac: Exodus. In Linux: No special program to run, but you have to tell your machine to allow the remote machine to display things on your screen
Login to the remote host (let's assume elaine-best)
Tell the remote machine what machine you are on. To do this, the best thing is to use the ``IP address'' of your machine. All the new computers in the linguistics department have their IP address written on a sticker on the machine.

Windows

If Exceed is not running already, start it (open the Exceed group and double-click the Exceed icon)
Login to the remote machine (e.g., elaine-best) using Samson
In your Leland account:
elaineXX:~> setenv DISPLAY your IP address:0.0
That's it. Now you can open X-windows by typing things like
elaineXX:~> xterm &

Mac

If Exodus is not running already, start it (you may have to look for it in your ``Hard Disk'' folder)
Login to the remote machine (e.g., elaine-best) using MacSamson
In your Leland account:
elaineXX:~> setenv DISPLAY your IP address:0.0
That's it. Now you can open X-windows by typing things like
elaineXX:~> xterm &

Linux

Type rlogin elaine-best
Wait for the prompt to see which elaineXX you have been connected to, then in a different window (open one by selecting New Shell) type xhost elaineXX.
In your Leland account:
elaineXX:~> setenv DISPLAY your-IP-address:0.0

One more thing...

All the above sections contain the line

In your Leland account:
elaineXX:~> setenv DISPLAY your-IP-address:0.0

You can avoid having to do this every time. When you login to elaine, the address of the local machine you are on is stored in an environment variable. To have the machine take care of the DISPLAY variable, edit your .cshrc file and, next to the other commands in the section titled Environmental Variables, enter the lines

if( $?REMOTE_IPADDRESS) then
        setenv DISPLAY "${REMOTE_IPADDRESS}:0.0"
endif

Next time you login, your DISPLAY variable will be taken care of.

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Getting Connected

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