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From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, hans.dekker.ext@juntadeandalucia.es Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:13:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0311241111490.13219@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw) In-Reply-To: <3FC1BBC5.3020903@juntadeandalucia.es> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Hans Dekker wrote: > Hi, > > Don't know if I am answering to the right question/ problem, but I see > some referrals to passwd, username etc. To get to login to a Unix box > with X you can use the following script, after starting X and getting > into the xterm box of your local machine: > > > xhost +<host> > /dev/null > > export IPADDR=`ipconfig | grep Address | grep "10\." | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 2 -d " "` > > rsh <host> -l ${USERNAME} "export DISPLAY=\"${IPADDR}:0.0\";cd $HOME; xterm" Make that "${USERNAME}" (the username may contain spaces too). However, why bother, if you can make "$USER" be without spaces in /etc/passwd? Igor > Use a modified startxwin.bat like: > > > start XWin -multiwindow > > xterm -T "your app initialisation screen" -e <startscript above> > > > Note that the bash shell copies the MS-Windows environment to it as you > start it. That's the referral to ${USERNAME}. We have the same usernames > for the MS-Windows environment as well as the Unix box logging in to. > You can fill out your username on the remote Unix box as needed. > > The string Address is what grep looks for in the output of ipconfig. > Maybe different in your locale. Check ipconfig output in your bash box. > > 10\. is part of our IP-address range in the Unix/ Windows network. It's > useful to scan your IP adresses when you have more than 1 NIC or more > than 1 IP-address. > > In case you have a $HOME on the remote machine with spaces in it try cd > \"${HOME}\" in the script. > > Regards, Hans. > > Igor Pechtchanski escribio: > > Robert, > > > > Sorry, but no. Cygwin doesn't care about the Windows username, it looks > > in /etc/passwd. If you change the name of the Windows account, you'd have > > to regenerate the appropriate entry in /etc/passwd anyway, so why not just > > eliminate the middle step and change /etc/passwd directly? Simply remove > > the spaces from the username and the home directory in /etc/passwd (and > > make sure you rename the directory itself), and it should be fine. > > Igor > > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > > > > > >>I think these names with spaces come from when they originally set up > >>Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2000 with thier full name when asked create > >>users in NT, 2000, XP or 2003 Server. > >>Correct this by going into the Windows Users' account setup in Control > >>Panel, and create a user without the spaces in the name. > >>Chan, use chansengloong as your new user name. Must be done in administrater > >>mode. > >>Over all effect will be a new account under Cygwin though windows. > >> > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com > >>[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo > >>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:35 PM > >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com > >>Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem > >> > >> > >>/ Chan Seng Loong <johncsl82@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>|[...] > >>| $ startx > >>| + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc > >>| + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc > >> > >>just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without.. edit > >>/etc/passwd. > >> > >> /A -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-24 16:13 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2003-11-22 2:02 Chan Seng Loong 2003-11-22 3:04 ` David Andersen 2003-11-22 4:40 ` Andrew Markebo 2003-11-22 4:53 ` Robert McNulty Junior 2003-11-22 23:25 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2003-11-24 8:10 ` Hans Dekker 2003-11-24 16:13 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message] -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2003-11-21 19:20 Chan Seng Loong 2003-11-21 19:52 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2003-11-21 20:04 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-22 14:25 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2003-11-22 18:36 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-29 18:57 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2003-12-02 20:44 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2003-12-03 1:38 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-20 17:54 Chan Seng Loong 2003-11-20 17:57 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-20 15:26 Henrik Schultz 2003-11-20 15:33 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-20 15:07 Chan Seng Loong 2003-11-20 15:24 ` Harold L Hunt II 2003-11-20 17:30 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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