XDMCP on Windows 95

[Harold L Hunt II]

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:
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>> 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
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>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>> 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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