From: jazz AT opennt DOT com (Jason Zions) Subject: RE: Running applications via telnet 18 Jan 1998 16:17:05 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: Tomas Vanak , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > but winnt applications (e.g. notepad.exe) > are running without screen - they are in task list but have no window. Where were you expecting the windows to appear? If they appeared on the monitor attached to the system, this would constitute a major security problem; a user logged-in directly at the system (i.e. using the keyboard, mouse, and monitor on the system) would not know which apps on the screen were hers and which were displayed by (and hence running under the identity of) the telneted user. Windows NT 3.5 introduced the concept of multiple "Windows Stations" on a single system. Only one Windows Station has "ownership" of the screen at a time; other windows stations display to virtual screens which aren't actually displayed anywhere. The telnet daemon runs as a service; NT is putting that service into a separate Windows Station, and each new session inherits that particular resource. This avoids the security problem described above. Jason Zions Softway Systems Inc. Makers of OpenNT: POSIX, UNIX and more for Windows NT - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".