Making Workspace work

Chuck Musciano chuck at melmac.harris-atd.com
Sat Dec 23 05:33:04 AEST 1989


     Well, I got the answer to my problem from the Geometry Hotline.  As
you may recall, whenever I tried to start the Workspace, I got a message
complaining that it could not connect to the File Access Manager.

     It turns out that my YP server is not a SGI machine, it's a Sun.  And
that machine does not have the necessary entries in /etc/rpc to make the 
Workspace work.  To fix the problem, add these lines to /etc/rpc on your
server:

	sgi_toolkitbus	391001
	sgi_fam		391002

Then cd to /var/yp on your server (probably /usr/etc/yp for pre-4.0 Suns)
and do a "make rpc".  Reboot your SGI, and the Workspace will work!

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