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:Hi Everyone,
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
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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