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A font server under Solaris is a special package called "SUNWxwfs". See if it is installed via "pkginfo -l SUNWxwfs". If it's not, install it from the Solaris-CD ("pkgadd -d . SUNWxwfs" somewhere in the /cdrom/…/s0).

Now you have to configure the font server, try manual pages to the font server first (man -s 1 fs).

Basically, only a couple of parameters have to be specified in the conf. file (the default config file being /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fontserver.cfg). The parameters include things such as port number of the font server (has also to be known to the clients) and the location of font directories to serve.

IMPORTANT:

Check what type of protocol (R5 or R6) ar required by your clients and install the proper version. You can, of course, install both version of font servers, but you have to run them on different TCP ports. Then, you can selectively configure clients (e.g. PC X-terminals) to use either X11R5 or X11R6 font server.

Start font server automatically by typing "fsadmin -e" (it will install start-up script to start the server after each reboot and start the server immediately). It exports your list of X fonts through a tcp port (7100 generally)

Check whether it is running by "fsinfo -s hostname:port".

Configure clients and see whether you can donwload fonts.

damir.delas @visana.ch