Running F-Secure SSH and XWin32, I add maple and run xmaple. The application starts and quits immediately. It used to work fine. I assume something changed server-side. My sister said she found a web page somewhere through which you have to create some kind of "reservation" to allow you to use remote access programs (and she said she tried it and it works). So what's the deal? And where is this web page? (She's not talking about http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/remoteaccess)

9/1/2006 11:53:15 AM

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she's talking about the VCL

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ancsu.edu+vcl&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

http://vcl.ncsu.edu

9/1/2006 11:56:03 AM

I set up F-Secure and X-Win32 3 years ago and it always worked. Now every time I run "xmaple &" it starts and then the process immediately exits. It is configured excactly as the remote access page says.

9/1/2006 12:06:17 PM

i can't stand the graphical lag with remote access (vcl) to maple ... it runs slow enough on campus, but it's downright painful off campus. i really don't get why, it's not like there's a slow link between here and there ... unless they've just config'd the remote access to be craptacularily slow.

and beyond that, there's the whole, actual ... usage ... of maple. what a pita.

^^^ but anyway, Limpy, make sure to have created a reservation, then when it's time for your reservation, go to the "current reservations" and click "confirm", then try logging in. i may have misunderstood you, but it sounds like that might be your problem.

if you're doing all that and it's actually f-secure/x-win32 that's giving you problems, i'd uninstall/reinstall both completely.

9/1/2006 3:49:15 PM

I got my copy from ncsu itd for free.

9/1/2006 4:06:12 PM

^ well yea ... and i haven't been using remote access recently myself either, i'm just aware of how to.

9/1/2006 7:40:11 PM

NEVER HAVE TO USE MAPLE EVER AGAIN!!!1



I WIN

9/1/2006 8:18:22 PM

For running any large applications, you really should use VCL. All of the general acces pools of machines (login.ncsu, remote.eos, remote-linux.eos) all have process restrictions in place that can cause large applications to crash/not load/whatever. This was done because you'd constantly having people running cadence or matlab on those machines and killing them.
http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/news/42b96fd8
http://sysadm.eos.ncsu.edu/site/pages/explanation-of-process-limits-on-general-ras-pool

9/3/2006 12:19:51 AM

Make sure you select your profile in fsecure before you connect.

9/3/2006 10:24:36 PM

Just message Quinn.

Thats what everyone in EE does.

9/4/2006 6:24:46 AM

Try adding a different version of Maple. Not sure what version they're using now, but you can always type add from command line in putty (or whatever else you're using to remote in) to get a list of software packages. I think the last one I saw was maple 10 available. If that's the case:

eos% add maple100
eos% xmaple &

Hope this helps.

9/4/2006 11:43:05 AM