Dave and Tim,
I have already installed and am using Netscape Navigator 4.72 for Solaris
2.5.1 and it does the job. Only one major problem with it is that the
entire Solaris file system is not secure. The user can surf through the
entire file system by entering "/" in the location bar and then browsing
from the root directory. Also by using the FILE...SAVE_AS function from the
menu bar, the user can overwrite any writable file with the contents of the
displayed HTML page. This is because Netscape is running as root. I've
tried to secure it by 'chroot'ing Netscape but haven't been successful.
Windows versions of Netscape are capable of running in a "Kiosk" mode where
the toolbars and hot keys can be disabled but unfortunately this is not yet
available in UNIX versions. I was hoping to find an easier way of displaying
our help files or maybe you have already found a solution to Netscape's
security problem. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
Dan
Dan Karppi CCST
Falconbridge Limited
Smelter Complex
Falconbridge, Ontario
Canada
P0M 1S0
Phone: (705) 693-2761 ext. 3881
Fax: (705) 699-3887
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:06 PM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
Subject: RE: Helpfile Viewer
I have installed Netscape Navigator for Solaris 2.5.1 on all of our WP51D's
for Help file viewing. The only issue is that sometimes on FoxView, the
colors get messed up if you run Netscape. If you close Netscape and restart
FoxView, the colors look OK again. This is pretty typical of FoxView in
general. It doesn't like other applications running that want to use the
color palette. For the most part, it has been very successful and we've
been happy with Netscape.
We have an Apache web server on one of our AW51E's, and the WP51D's can call
up HTML help documents via buttons on the FoxView screens from the AW51E
that have nice explanations of our advanced control schemes. Since the
WP51D's don't have second Ethernet ports, we use the token-ring IP address
on the AW51E to serve the documents to the WP51D's. That's probably not
incredibly smart, but HTML documents are usually not high-bandwidth, and we
haven't had any traffic problems that I know of.
You can find a compiled version of Netscape Navigator for Unix 2.5.1 at
http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10002-en-solaris2.5.1-4.76-base-12
8_qual.html
<http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10002-en-solaris2.5.1-4.76-base-1
28_qual.html>
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Karppi, Dan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:19 AM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
Subject: Helpfile Viewer
Hello List Members,
I want to provide our plant operators with Help/Operating manual
pages that
are called up by a button on a display. Standard display manager
text boxes
are too limited. I am looking for a way to display text and graphic
files
from display manager. Do any of you do this or know how to do this
using
built in Solaris applications or third party applications. An HTML
file
viewer would be ideal.
Thanks,
Dan
Dan Karppi CCST
Falconbridge Limited
Smelter Complex
Falconbridge, Ontario
Canada
P0M 1S0
Phone: (705) 693-2761 ext. 3881
Fax: (705) 699-3887
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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