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: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:54:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Stephen Liu cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Subject: Re: Starting cygwin problem In-Reply-To: <3D83E6D5.3040301@writeme.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All Folks, > > I have Cygwin installed on a WinXP PC which linked to LTSP server, > working as a diskless workstartion and a standand alone PC as well. The > PC has 2 NICs, one of which is mounted with a boot-rom and connected to > LTSP server and another to Internet. > > Starting WinXP by selecting 'LOCAL' when turned on the PC > > Clicking 'Cygwin' icon on desktop, The shell window popup > > I have no name!@M40G ~ > $ cygstart > Usage: cygstart [-a STRING] [d- STRING].......... > ..........[OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS] > > I have no name!@M40G ~ > $ hostname [ENTER] > M40G [is the name of the PC/computer] > > I have no name!@M40G ~ > $ X -query 192.168.0.254 [ENTER] (IP Add of LTSP server) > > started an empty "Cygwin/XFree86 window > > Kindly advise how to make them connected > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephen Liu Mmm... Cygwin is a UNIX emulation environment under windows. You got yourself a UNIX shell prompt. Technically, you've started Cygwin. :-) What exactly are you trying to start again? If my guess is correct, and you're trying to start an X session on Cygwin/XFree86, try running startx, and search the cygwin-xfree mailing list archives for details: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/ X-related questions should be addressed there. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- 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/