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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: dcop questions
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () suse ! com>
Date:       2001-09-10 19:50:14
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On Monday 10 September 2001 08:43 am, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> I have a set up where we will be using dcop to communicate between a few
> different programs running on the same system.  This has been verified to
> work great.  There will be 10 of these such "systems" running on the same
> network.  I would like the ability to communicate between systems  via
> client/server using, hopefully, dcop as well.
>
> I have done some research into the setServerAddress method but I cannot
> successfully attach to the server.  Based on the address I give it, I
> generally get messages such as "transport method not supported" or
> "authentication errors".  These seem to come from the underlying X code
> that dcop is written on.
>
> My question: has anyone done anything like this.  Security isn't much of a
> concern - I just need to know the best setup and configuration for handling
> this information.

DCOP isn't designed to work between systems.  In fact, I don't think it's 
possible at all (but could be wrong, there).

In any event, you will want to use the XML-RPC daemon to handle DCOP requests 
over a network.  For KDE 2.x, it is in kdebase (and kdenetwork for KDE CVS).
-- 
Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
            KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop
 
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