Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:54:46 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1p84e8cb7fazd$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <200403230914 DOT 49520 DOT cgbullock AT cox DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-88.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * Chris Bullock (2004-03-23 15:14 +0100) > 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. Start X, login to the terminal server via ssh, start the browser with the DISPLAY variable set to the Cygwin X server. That's it. All you have to do is to automate this: the ssh-session into the startup file of your X server or Windowmanager. None of this is Cygwin specific (except the link to the the .bat to start the X server) Thorsten -- 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/