X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <30850233.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <30850233.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:26:39 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygstart through SSH tunnel From: marco atzeri To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, davej1983 wrote: > > Hi, I'm fairly new to Cygwin, so this might be a pretty simple question, but > so far I haven't had any luck finding an answer so far. > > I have an SSH server running on a remote computer, that I can log into using > cygwin. While logged, if I use cygstart to try to open a file, or if I try > to launch a program, it will not fully open/launch. For example, if I try to > open a text file, notepad.exe will show up in the task manager, but won't > actually open. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? Any help > would be appreciated! > > Dave > -- start here to provide us more info: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I guess that your cygwin user has not the authorization to open/work with the remote desktop. If I remember right, the latest version of windows make it more hard (or impossible ?) Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple