Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: bjrosen set sender to bjrosen@polybus.com using -f Subject: Cygwin newbie needs help From: "B. Joshua Rosen" To: cygwin In-Reply-To: <20020423161837.GB8032@redhat.com> References: <20020423161837.GB8032@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 23 Apr 2002 15:02:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1019588574.2950.2.camel@saratoga> Mime-Version: 1.0 I've installed Cygwin on a freshly built Win2K Pro system. I installed everything including Xfree86, I've also installed Xemacs. I have a few basic questions to get me started. My operating environment is as follows, my workstation is a Redhat 7.2 box, the Win2K box is in another room. I want to be able to work on the Win2K box remotely. Currently I'm using VNC but I'm not happy with that solution because VNC is dog slow, I get better performance over a dialup line with SSH then I do with VNC over my LAN. So here are a few questions 1) How do I get X forwarding to work? I've tried the usual, i.e. setenv DISPLAY remotemachine:0.0 but that didn't work. When I launched Xemacs it opened up on the local machine instead of the remote machine. 2) Is there a way to rlogin or ssh into the Win2K box? 3) How do I get cygwin to automatically use tcsh instead of bash? I edited /etc/passwd but that didn't seem to work. 4) Is there a way to configure VNC so that it's performance is adequate?, any suggestions in this area would also be appreciated. Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/