X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Clayton Holloway Subject: Re: Starting native windows GUI app via ssh. Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:58 -0500 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <183c528b0712171326i64f56a07s33b9053f81f22324@mail.gmail.com> <4766FA05.2030302@saic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <4766FA05.2030302@saic.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Sounds good to me. I doubt this is a standard ssh option so I wouldn't know what to add in the config. Would you mind pasting the config that enables this or, if you don't remember which config option it is, the whole sshd_config. Thanks. :) Roger Wells wrote: > A few weeks I asked for help with the same problem. The advice that > worked (I think) was to be sure that the installation of sshd was such > that it is allowed to interact with the desktop. > In any case I have it working in my situation so let me know if you need > more help. > HTH > > Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Dec 17, 2007 3:20 PM, Clayton Holloway >> wrote: >> >>> Is it at all possible to start a native windows application(GUI) via ssh >>> and have it actually appear on the windows box? >>> >>> No matter what app I run via ssh (firefox, notepad, etc) the process is >>> listed in the task manager, but is nowhere to be found on the screen. If >>> X were in use here, I'd just set the DISPLAY variable, but afaik windows >>> won't use a DISPLAY. >>> >>> Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. >>> >> >> You need to install the cygwin ssh service with the "Interact with >> desktop" option enabled. >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > -- 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/