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From: Chris Bullock <cgbullock AT cox DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:14:49 -0500
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This is my first post to cygwin and I would like to say, great product.

Background:
With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking 
Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet.  What we are doing is placing 
a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that 
needs to access the Internet.  This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a 
huge headache.

What I desire.  I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows 
box.  When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux 
Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice.  First off is this possible? 
and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen.  I do not want to 
have to run the entire terminal client.  Currently, what we have tested is 
from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the 
entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser.

Regards,
Chris  


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