[daip] remote TV display

[Eric Greisen]

Dale Frail wrote:
> Dear aips,
> 
> I am trying to use my MAC laptop (renacer) to display images
> that reside on my linux machine (transient) while I am at
> Caltech for a month. Its partly for my own research but
> also to test out some suggestions we made to have users be
> able to remotely reduce data.
> 
> I am having problems. I have read much documentation, including
> various appendices from the aips cookbook.
> 
> I am able to start up a TV on my laptop. I can also ssh back to
> the linux machine in Socorro. As a test I also can ssh back
> to the laptop (ssh dfrail at DHCP-194-189.caltech.edu). All is good.
> 
> So now I ...
> 
> setenv DISPLAY DHCP-194-189.caltech.edu:0
> aips tst tv=DHCP-194-189.caltech.edu
> 
> It seems to be working but it keeps asking for a password
> to log on to the MAC and eventually it fails. I've seen this
> same failure mode at Green Bank so it is something fundamental
> that I am missing.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Dale
> 

I don't think the first setenv is a good idea.  I would also add tvok to 
the command line so that it does not try to login to the laptop to run 
START_TVSERVERS (which will not work anyway since the desktop does not 
know ehere it is on the laptop).

Maybe Wes has more ideas?

Eric