XDMCP on Windows 95
J S
vervoom@hotmail.com
Wed Dec 4 20:25:00 GMT 2002
I tried using the -ac on here as well but it didn't work :(
JS.
>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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