Re: Remote gdomap server

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 05:28 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 05:17 PM, Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Richard Frith-Macdonald [mailto:richard@brainstorm.co.uk]
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 12:11 PM
> > > To: Adam Fedor
> > > Cc: bug-gnustep@gnu.org
> > > Subject: Re: Remote gdomap server
> >
> > > We could add a command line argument for gdnc and gpbs to start them
> > > with alternative service names, so you could
> > > start a server for your windows machine on your unix machine
> >
> >
> > What about just an argument for the current app, or a default which 
> > specifies which host to look for the server on, like NSHost (only 
> > specifying that causes my app to try to display on the NSHost, so it 
> > needs to be different, like GSServerHost)
>
> The problem with that is you would need another server machine without 
> an X display to run the gdnc and gpbs
> servers for each machine with an X display but no GNUstep.
> Basically, each X display requires its own gdnc and gpbs servers.
> Also, if you have two machines displaying to the same X display, they 
> must both use the same gdnc and gpbs
> servers - so simply using a server on the local host in each case does 
> not work.
>
> Really, you must connect to servers with alternative names ... that way 
> you can run multiple gdnc and gpbs
> servers (each corresponding to a different display) on a single machine.

I've just made a quick hack to gdnc.m in CVS, so you can easily see what 
I mean.

The idea is that, if your windows box is called 'WinX', you would run a 
gdnc server for it on
your GNUstep machine by typing 'gdnc -NSHost WinX'

Any applications using the display on WinX would also use the -NSHost 
argument, and they would
use the value supplied in this to connect to the correct instance of 
gdnc.