XDMCP on Windows 95

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Dec 4 04:27:00 GMT 2002


Ah ha... okay, but in this case it would be good to at least rule out 
the non-standard port as a possible culprit.  Once the port is ruled 
out, we can move on to other possible solutions.

Harold

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> You're correct, I should have said 'product foo'...
> I took Microsoft as example because it was the first company I had in
> mind. I don't have anything against Microsoft, otherwise I wouldn't use
> Cygwin ;)
> 
> In the company I'm working now, almost every network TCP port is
> customized. What I wanted to say is :
> If the port 1234 is used with some X servers with XDMCP and it crashes,
> some online customer helpdesk will say : "You don't use standard XDMCP
> port, I can't do anything for you. Get lost." I don't want Cygwin-Xfree
> to do the same.
> 
> 
>  --- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit : 
> 
>>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
>>
>> 
> 
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