Xstartd

Xstartd is the local X client starter daemon. When Xstartd is enabled, other users can access X clients on your PC. They can connect to your PC and start X clients by using their Xstart application and the REXEC or RSH connection methods.

RSH is available only for Windows 98/Me. You cannot use the RSH protocol with Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003.

REXEC

When using the REXEC protocol, Xstartd verifies the user name and password to ensure that access has been granted to the remote user.

Windows 98/Me

Xstartd uses InetD Admin to verify user names and passwords. For REXEC, -p password_file specifies the password file to be used to validate access. By default, the password file is password.hcl, located in the following directory:

system\HUMMINGBIRD\Connectivity\version\InetD

where version is the version number of your Hummingbird product.

In Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003

User names and passwords are verified by the operating system itself. The user name used must belong to someone who uses that PC or to a fully qualified domain user who is permitted to login to that PC.

RSH

RSH is available on Windows 98/Me only. The rhosts file determines which hosts are allowed to connect to the PC and is located in the following directory:

system\HUMMINGBIRD\Connectivity\version\InetD

where version is the version number of your Hummingbird product.

The rhosts file consists of one or more lines in the following format:

hostname username

where hostname represents a host name from which RSH is allowed, and username represents the user ID of a user on the host, hostname, who is allowed to RSH to your PC.

You must put a space between the hostname and username parameters.

To include a comment in the file, begin the comment line with the number or pound sign (#).

You can use the plus character (+) in the hostname or username fields to represent any host and any user. For example:

To allow any user from sparc to RSH to your PC, specify:

sparc +

To allow all users with the user ID of John Smith on any host to RSH to your PC, specify:

+ JohnSmith

To allow any user on any host to RSH to your PC, specify:

+ +

To allow John Smith from host sparc to RSH to your PC, specify:

sparc JohnSmith