Accessing FilePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006, Cal Robinson wrote:
>Hi,
>Our company has been using FilePro for a number of years. However, 
>we've been running everything on dumb serial terminals.
>We are currently in the process of adding Linux Fedora machines to our 
>system. I can currently ping all the systems but am wondering how users 
>on these machines can access FilePro.

If they're running on KDE or similar GUI desktop on the Linux
machines, the easiest way to access FilePro on the remote
machines is probably just to use ssh (secure shell) to run the
filepro in a remote xterm.

A simple script to handle this might be:

#!/bin/sh
ssh -Y -l username -f servername xterm -e p
exit

This will run an xterm on the server, executing the FilePro
startup script ``p'' in that xterm.

We do similar things from Apple OS X desktop machines, creating a
Custom Menu in the X11 Applications pull-down.

You can make this very easy, not requiring a password on the
server, by creating public/private key identity files on the
client machines with the ``ssh-keygen'' program.

I just finished moving a client from an 8 year old Linux box
running Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 to a new Linux box, and the only
thing I had to do on the client machines was to change the
hostname in their ssh commands to point to the new machine (and I
wouldn't have had to do that if we weren't keeping the old
machine on-line until we're absolutely sure there's nothing on it
that we need).  In this case, most of the client machines are Mac
Minis running OS X Tiger, with one SuSE 9.3 Pro Linux desktop.

Bill
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