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From: Steve Howie <showie@uoguelph.ca> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: bszk@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca, bo@uoguelph.ca Subject: Initiating a remote X session Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:31:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <400E9ABA.6070103@uoguelph.ca> (raw) Howdy, We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very impressed. However, we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some pre-defined 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run SAS then have the output sent to an cygwin-xfree server. Unix commands are not the forte of most of our users. This is fine with a static IP address - we would launch a program which does something like: rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY <ipaddress>; /opt/SAS82/sas " from the Cygwin shell. All bets are off, however, since most of our IP addresses are served out by DHCP. We currently use X-Win32 which has a nifty feature for getting around this - you can specify $MYIP:0 which picks up the current IP address of the X-server and passes it to the session definition which is sent to the host which will run the application. So ideally we would like something similar to this in cygwin-xfree : rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas" I did a quick dig through the archives and noticed something similar to this question - but it was from a while ago - we'd ideally like to have the user get a popup prompting them for a username/password for the host, then pass this information via a command such as the one above, and also pick up the X-servers IP address whether static or dynamic. Is something like this available already? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks, Scotty --- Steve Howie Academic Services, CCS University of Guelph Guelph Ontario CANADA
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-21 15:31 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2004-01-21 15:31 Steve Howie [this message] 2004-01-21 15:41 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-21 16:24 ` Steve Howie 2004-01-21 17:10 ` Alexander Gottwald 2004-01-21 17:42 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl 2004-01-21 16:25 ` Andrew Braverman 2004-01-21 16:46 ` Chris Green 2004-01-22 9:30 ` Hans Dekker
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