Re: XDMCP on Windows 95

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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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