From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12339 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2004 15:31:02 -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 12311 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 15:31:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca) (131.104.96.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 15:31:01 -0000 Received: from uoguelph.ca (host45-124.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.45.124]) by ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0LFUxbj014528; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:30:59 -0500 Message-ID: <400E9ABA.6070103@uoguelph.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:31:00 -0000 From: Steve Howie Organization: University of Guelph 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 CC: bszk@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca, bo@uoguelph.ca Subject: Initiating a remote X session Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: Neutral X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00439.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 -l "setenv DISPLAY ; /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 -l "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