Re: [K12OSN] [K12os] HOD access

Julius Szelagiewicz (julius@turtle.com)
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:51:59 -0500 (EST) 

Hamish, LTSP Folks,
	the problem was solved last night on the HOD server side. This is
a brief description of my travails, just in case you run into a similar
problem.
	The first thing to do was to dump the IMB JRE, it introduced many
problems while hiding the real trouble. Removal took care of netscape
crashing and of the "unable to write in /tmp" problem. I still don't know
which /tmp directory it was referring to.
	The real problem on the HOD server side was that netscape was
asking me for an additional login that looked like the real user login on
the server as opossed to the ssl login to get to the HOD server. It turned
out to be a valid dialog that is normally hidden, because the values are
entered automagically. Once I new what those values were supposed to be,
everything went swimmingly. I still have to go through the printer setup.
but the main objective has been achieved without using any windoze
software.
	I have not been able to ascertain neither the type of computer,
nor the operating system, nor HOD release level. julius

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hamish Kibblewhite wrote:

> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> > Dear Folks,
> > 	this may seem off topic, but ... I have to allow many users to
> > connect to external ibm mainframes by hod - host-on-demand. this is a java
> > based product running on ibm iron that allows secure connect and ibm
> > terminal emulation (among other things). ibm insists on loading their
> > version of jre, which i did, but i still get errors from applet, namely
> > "unable to create jar cache in /tmp directory ...". bogus error, since
> > /tmp is mod 777, but the applet doesn't work. ibm is no help at all, i
> > can't even read tech support database documents without having a paid
> > software contract. the supplier whose computers i access doesn't care and
> > is clueless. do any of you have ideas how to deal with it? if i don't get
> > it solved, i'll have to give the people affected windoze machines, since
> > the stuff works fine on them. this would be tragic. thanks, julius
>
> Julius,
>     I couldn't find a match for the problem you describe.
>
> I did find the redbook SG24-6182 "IBM Host Access Client Package" at
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
>
> There is a chapter on Problem Determination that may be of use.  You
> don't mention what OS you are running host-on-demand on.What version of
> Host-on-Demand or what level of Java you are running.
>
> What are the clients?  Are they Java enabled browsers on windows?  What
> about the linux browser?
>
> Appendix D "Netscape 6.0 and Java2-enabled Web browser issues" from the
> "IBM Websphere Host On-Demand Version 6.0 Getting Started" from
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss?rs=132&rt=0&org=SW&doc=7000585
> may also have a few things it be useful for you to check out.
>
> There is also a newsgroup ibm.software.hostondemand which I found in
> google groups which may be able to help you more than this group.
>
> Hmmm... After browsing it for a while I have found the following. Again
> doesn't look directly related.  But shows that *someone* has got it
> running on linux client.
>
> ===== snip =======
> does anybody got HOD 6.0 working on Linux. I tried running it using
> Netscape 6.2, but after login a got a directory listing of the HOD
> directory on my web server.
> .
> .
> I'll answer my own question. The clue is to install the JRE from IBM and
> to install Netscape 6.x without Java2. So I got working Netscape 6.0.1
> and Netscape 6.2.1 on my linux boxes with HOD 6.0
>
> ===== end snip ========
>
> This has been answered in stream of consciousness mode.. Hope it gives
> you a few pointers.
>
> Good Luck!
> Regards,
> Hamish Kibblewhite
>
>
>
>
>



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