From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28679 invoked by alias); 3 May 2004 15:39:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28671 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 15:39:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 May 2004 15:39:53 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43FdqUS015609; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:39:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i43FdqJW015606; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:39:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:39:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Cygwin List cc: Mauro Migliorati Subject: Re: Run Windows application via ssh In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040503112607.03090a50@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: References: <200405031601.12828.mauro.migliorati@uniroma1.it> <6.1.0.6.0.20040503112607.03090a50@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On Mon, 3 May 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:01 AM 5/3/2004, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I installed Cygwin on a machine with Windows XP and started the service > >sshd. I would like to connect from another machine (client) via ssh, > >run a Windows application on the server and view the window on the > >client. I do not want to use vnc, I just want to run a single > >application, not the desktop of the server that is used by another > >user. > > > >I manage to connect via ssh but, when I try to open an application, > >like notepad, it does not appear on the client screen. > > Specify the '--interactive' flag to 'cygrunsrv' when you install 'sshd'. This will only pop up notepad (or any other windowed application) on the *server's* desktop. What the OP wants is forwarding of individual graphical apps over ssh, and this can't be done with Windows apps. Perhaps a remote desktop solution of some sort will work. Igor -- 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/