From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21644 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 19:20:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21634 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 19:20:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 19:20:39 -0000 Received: from msu.edu (m400d5e42.tmodns.net [66.94.13.64]) (authenticated bits=0) by central.ixn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i02JK2MN098278 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:20:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FF5C45A.3090406@msu.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:20:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? References: <20031231221603.GA320@areti.co.uk> <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu> <20040101153702.GB1971@areti.co.uk> <20040102140446.GA4425@areti.co.uk> <20040102144403.GA4596@areti.co.uk> <20040102180025.GA5079@areti.co.uk> <3FF5B846.4050502@msu.edu> <20040102185023.GA5256@areti.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040102185023.GA5256@areti.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 List-Id: Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:28:22PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >>>It's of little use to be able to allow xwinclip to run on the win2k >>>system by executing something on the Linux system. One wants a means >>>to do it from the X startup script. >> >>Sure, one wants to, but there is not a way to do it. Patches are welcome. >> > > So are we now saying that what I want to do is impossible? Umm... I'm not sure what you want to do. It is not currently possible to pre-authenticate xwinclip via xhost from a script run on your Windows machine, but it is possible to use the X hosts file like Alexander suggested, or to run xhost on the remote machine after logging in. So, if you want to do the first item, then you would need to try to design a change to the X security system and provide a patch that implements it. It would be difficult to design such a change without opening up security holes that do not currently exist; or, it may not be possible. > I thought people were initially saying that although the '-clipboard' > parameter to Xwin wouldn't work when using xdmcp the separate xwinclip > executable should work OK. However it would now seem that it's > actually impossible to execute xwinclip in the situation where one has > am xdmcp connection to a remote computer. No, it is not impossible. Alexander told you how to use xwinclip (run xhost on the remote machine once you have logged in), but you did not believe him that it worked so you didn't try it. Remember who is asking for help here and who is helping... we are telling you how to do it, you just need to try it. > I'm not complaining (much!), but I am rather confused. :-) It's okay. You'll figure it out. Harold