XDMCP on Windows 95

[J S]

All  i did was :

xwin -query host -fp host:7100 -from mypc

I didn't pass the extra parms so I guess there was a flaw in that theory! 
I'm clutching at straws a bit now though 'cos I'm desperate to sort this 
out. I would have a look at the source code but I can imagine it's going to 
be huge and I haven't got much time left to sort this out. Would I be right 
in saying though that the most likely cause has got to be something windows 
95-network related since the original message said invalid address and this 
only occurs on win 95?

>
>JS,
>
>That depends, were you passing those parameters to XWin.exe when trying to 
>use XDMCP?  If you were, then yes, they are likely the reason that XDMCP 
>was failing, as XWin.exe was failing to start.  If you were not passing 
>those parameters, then it really does not matter that XWin.exe fails with 
>those parameters, as long as XWin.exe starts when you do not use those 
>parameters.
>
>Harold
>
>J S wrote:
>
>>
>>I just found out that if I do:
>>
>>xwin -fullscreen -depth 32
>>
>>on the win95 machine, XFree fails to start. It only works when I set the 
>>depth to 8. Could this explain why I couldn't get xdmcp to work on my 
>>windows 95 machine?
>>
>>>
>>>Yup, you can specify the port number.  From the ``man Xserver'' page:
>>>XDMCP OPTIONS
>>>        X servers that support XDMCP have the  following  options.
>>>        See  the  X Display Manager Control Protocol specification
>>>        for more information.
>>>
>>>        -query host-name
>>>                Enable XDMCP and send Query packets to the  speci-
>>>                fied host.
>>>
>>>        -broadcast
>>>                Enable  XDMCP and broadcast BroadcastQuery packets
>>>                to the network.  The first responding display man-
>>>                ager will be chosen for the session.
>>>
>>>        -indirect host-name
>>>                Enable XDMCP and send IndirectQuery packets to the
>>>                specified host.
>>>
>>>        -port port-num
>>>                Use an alternate port number  for  XDMCP  packets.
>>>                Must be specified before any -query, -broadcast or
>>>                -indirect options.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thus, you would do something like:
>>>XWin -query smpd9 -port 6556 -fp tcp/smpd9:7100 -from a217447
>>>
>>>
>>>Harold
>>>
>>>J S wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Okay, okay, but I didn't want to be that hard on Sylvain as he is a 
>>>>>good contributor to our discussions... I just wanted to put up a 
>>>>>friendly reminder that everyone, I more so than others, should 
>>>>>sometimes tone down our messages.  That's all.
>>>>>
>>>>>Harold
>>>>>
>>>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I am not understanding why your response was appropriate.  The 
>>>>>>>default port for XDM has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless 
>>>>>>>Microsoft has decided to use port 177 for one of their products.  If 
>>>>>>>that was the case, then a simple mention that ``Product Foo'' uses 
>>>>>>>port 177 would have been sufficient, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>AFAICT, it's the standard Cygwin response #13, issued when someone is
>>>>>>confused about the process and wants to make a point by letting 
>>>>>>everyone
>>>>>>know how bad Microsoft is and exhorting all of us not to be that way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>In other words, it was a value-free message.  Alexander's response was
>>>>>>perfectly clear and he didn't need to be taken to task for some 
>>>>>>imagined
>>>>>>attitude.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>cgf
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for all the interest! Just to get things back into perspective... 
>>>>The reason for choosing some random port number for debugging xdm was 
>>>>because I couldn't kill the daemon on port 177 as this machine is being 
>>>>used by other people .
>>>>
>>>>I was able to fire off a solaris desktop session on my windows 95 
>>>>machine from the xdm on the server, but wasn't sure how to do it the 
>>>>other way round i.e. run the XWin -query command and get it to connect 
>>>>to my xdm debug instance running on the different port. Is this 
>>>>possible?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the help,
>>>>
>>>>JS.
>>>>
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