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Re: [nv-l] Answer - Off topic - dt on AIX 4.3.3 ML10

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Answer - Off topic - dt on AIX 4.3.3 ML10
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:41:58 +0100

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Answer - Off topic - dt on AIX 4.3.3 ML10
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:10:30 +0100
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
To: "Sowell.Jim" <Jim.Sowell@suntrust.com>
CC: Steve Wilde <Steve_wilde@uk.ibm.com>,Richard Fowkes
<FOWKESR@uk.ibm.com>
References:
<CD9F9118ECE0D411B7E400508BB46BDF05B9C833@ga016a10.suntrust.com>

This turned out to be permissions on /var/dt/tmp. Permissions need to be
777
and for some reason they were 744.
Cheers,
Jane

>
> I am installing NV 7.1.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10.  NetView is fine (finally -
> see second paragraph).  My problem is with creating basic AIX users.
> I've done this with smit users - supply userid and take all the
> defaults. Set a password.  Can login fine and do everything on a
> terminal but if I logon to the console with this new user, all Desktop
> functionality is broken and I get a message such as "Action
> "ExitSession" was not found".  Can't even logoff so have to kill the
> dtsession process.  I've done this hundreds of times before....
> Everything is fine for root.  Any clues?????
>
> The NetView install is a non-Framework one.  I ran into an initial
> problem when running "instalnv -k SERVER".  I got the message "Trusted
> host access from TMR server denied: check host name, /.rhosts, etc ".
> The solution was to create /.rhosts for my machine, nvserver, with the
> following line:
>    nvserver root
> I spent a while following the red herring of "TMR Server" before I
> decided it was using rsh within the NetView box for the instalnv
> process.
>
> Cheers, Jane
>

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