RE: problem using XWin for HP-Unix

["Joaquin" <winminion at realmspace dot com>]

Though this is not so secure using the $DISPLAY=ipaddr:0.0 and xhost
+ipaddr.  It's better to just ssh into the machine from a local xterm
and have xclients automatically forwarded (though X11 authentication
needs to be turned on in ssh config files).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 7:40 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: problem using XWin for HP-Unix
>
>
> geethar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > We tried to use Cygwin's XWin command to connect to the HP-UNIX
> > machine remotely. But we do not know which port number has
> to be used.
> > Please let me know which command should be used to connect
> to HP-Unix
> > and what port has to used for the same.
> >
> > I appreciate your early response. We are actually stuck with this
> > problem and waiting for this to be resolved.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> X traffic generally travels over port 6000 but I believe it's really
> something like 6000 + DISPLAY # so for DISPLAY=<machine>:0
> it's 6000 but
> for DISPLAY=<machine>:1 it'd be 6001.
>
> Note if you are using XDMCP I believe it uses port 770 (UDP).
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