Hello Stefan.
These are excellent general instructions, but I still need an example.
I will forward your reply to the win4lin-users mailing list; maybe
someone there can supply a "for example" that illustrates each of your
general instructions in the particular context of Win4Lin/Linux.
Thank you for your patience!
Greetings,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Ondrejicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: citizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: How to make MPCB work?
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, citizen wrote:
>
> Hi Bill!
>
> [...]
> > Can you give me an example of what you mean by "in the 'Client'
> > tab, add the partner server information"?
> >
> > Can you give me an example of what you mean by "in the 'Server'
> > tab, enable the server"?
>
> Ok, here is step-by-step course on how to setup mpcb. I am not allowed
to
> post to win4lin mailing list as I am not member, so feel free to
forward
> it there when you think it will be useful for someone there.
>
> Basically, I haven't any knowledge about win4lin, I just know it is
some
> emulation runtime of win32 API which helps running win32 programs in
linux
> environment. I don't know how there is emulated network ... probably
some
> sort of virtual network interface which have assigned its own IP
address
> (call it WIP). And on linux side you have another networking interface
> (maybe dummy) which have different IP address (call it LIP).
> If I am right with the previous assumptions, than you can setup mpcb
> following way:
>
> the win32 (win4lin) side:
> 1. run mpcb (there will appear mpcb icon in systray)
> 2. do rightclick on the mpcb systray icon (there will raise mpcb
config
> window)
> 3. in the setup windows you have two or three tabs ("Client", "Server"
and
> in latest version also "General")
> 4. click the "Client" tab ... you have there one list with four
columns.
> - Name (just convenience name of server connection)
> - Server (IP address or FQDN of partner server)
> - Port (TCP port on which partner server listens - default 11111)
> - Buffer (number of clipboard buffer (0-10) - on unix side there is
11
> possible places where application can store clipboard
data)
>
> and in bottom below the list there are entries for each list column
(in
> order)
>
> in the "Name" entry write "linux"
> in the "Server" entry write "LIP" (the IP address of your linux
> interface mentioned above
> in "Port" entry you can let the default port number 11111
> in "Buffer" entry just let the deafault 0 (primary clipboard buffer)
>
> then press add button and the entry will appear in the list
>
> 5. then switch to "Server" tab ...
> you can there enable/disable server side of mpcb
> you can set there port on which listens the server
> you can enable logging of clients which requested contents of your
> clipboard
> and finally there is list which contains IP addresses which are
allowed
> to request content of your clipboard (just for security
reasons)
> In this list you must add IP address of the linux network
> interface.
> in the entry below list enter "LIP"(the IP address of your
linux
> interface mentioned above) and push add button (the ip
addres
> will be added to list.
>
> 6. after this steps you are done and you can press the "Save" button
in
> the bottom of mpcb setup window to preserve your settings and then
> "OK" button to accept the settings and close setup window.
>
> Well this is setup of the win4lin side of mpcb.
>
>
> And here comes setup of linux side of mpcb:
>
> 1. run mpcb (there will appear small window with two buttons on option
> list)
> 2. on the right side of the window there is button which after
clicking
> popups setup dialog
> 3. there are two or three tabs in the the setup window (depends on
> version) "Client, "Server", "GUI"
> 4. click the "CLient" tab ... you will see there similar four columns
list
> like in win32 mpcb setup
> - Name (just convenience name of server connection)
> - Address (IP address or FQDN of partner server)
> - Port (TCP port on which partner server listens - default
11111)
> - Buffer (number of clipboard buffer (0-10) - on unix side there
is 11
> possible places where application can store clipboard
data)
>
> and in bottom below the list there are entries for each list column
(in
> order)
>
> in the entry below "Name" enter "windows"
> in the entry below "Address" enter "WIP" (the IP addres of win4lin
> network interface mentioned above)
> in the entry below "Port" you can leave default port 11111
> in the dropdown list below "Buffer" select "PRIMARY" (equal to
buffer 0
> on the win4lin side)
>
> then click "Append" button to add the data from entries to list.
>
> 5. swith to "Server" tab ... it is again very similar to win32 setup
of mpcb
> you can enable/disable server
> set listen port of server
> enable loging of requests to syslog
> and definetly you have there list of clients allowed to request
content
> of your clipboard
>
> below the list is again entry where you shold write the IP address
or
> FQDN of the win4lin network interface ... in our case "WIP" and
then
> push "Append" button to add data from entry to list.
>
> 6. after this steps you are done and you can press the "Save .rc"
button
> in the bottom of mpcb setup window to preserve your settings and
then
> "OK" button to accept the settings and close setup window.
>
> And finaly you can start using mpcb ...
>
> on win4lin side leftclick the mpcb icon and there will popup list of
> available server where you can select from which you can choose. Click
on
> one and you will get content of its clipboard.
>
> on linux side choose from dropdown list one server to retrieve its
> clipboard or when you have just selected server, push thre left
refresh
> button.
>
> I hope this will help you.
>
> Best regards,
> Stevo.
>
> --
> Stefan Ondrejicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Beethovenova 11, 917 08 Trnava, Slovakia
> http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/
>
>
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