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>From: "Valentijn Venus" <address@hidden> >Organization: ITC >Keywords: 200501271125.j0RBPVv2006190 McIDAS XCD gribdec.tar.Z ADDE Hi Tom, >i'm looking for an ADDE pointer to archived ECMWF surface incident >shortwave radiation (w/m^2). Is there ADDE server with global model >data, that goes back to 2002/2003/2004? The McIDAS GRID server can works with data converted from GRIB (not GRIB2) to McIDAS GRID format. The decoders are included in Unidata McIDAS-X as the XCD component, and also in the gribdec.tar.Z bundle that can be found in the unix/gribdec directory of passworded ftp for the Unidata McIDAS distribution. >Something else: i have problems making a local dataset (MSG HRIT >segmented files) remotely accessible. Every time i run a DATALOC ADD, >only on the serving machine the ADDE shows up. Other clients cannot see >it, whereas i previously could achieve the same quit easily. Any ideas? This could be due to firewall issues or to you not having setup/setup completely the remote ADDE server: <as 'mcidas'> create the .mcenv file in ~mcidas (as per web page instructions) make sure that the compress and uncompress applications can be found in the PATH in .mcenv (if using 'compress' compressed access; the current recommendation is to use 'gzip' compressed data transfers set by the end user defining MCCOMPRESS to be GZIP before running his/her McIDAS session) <as 'root'> create the user 'mcadde' and make it have the same HOME directory as the user 'mcidas' but have no login shell cd ~mcidas sh ./mcinet2004.sh install mcadde If remote access still doesn't work, it most likely means that access (to ports 112, 500, and or 503) is blocked through a firewall; that there is an error in ~mcidas/.mcenv; that the ~mcidas directory is not readable/writable by the user 'mcadde'; and/or that the user 'mcadde' is not in the same group as 'mcidas'. >Btw, do you have any news on the wavelet compression issue? Not yet, sorry. >Cheers, >Valentijn I will not be in the office today or tomorrow. I will be checking email on Saturday when I return home. Cheers, Tom >From address@hidden Thu Jan 27 07:58:55 2005 Thanks for the swift reply. I'll try per your instructions to get the ADDE server issues solved. I cannot be a firewall issue because I'm within the LAN. Valentijn