RE: Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation which is using the windows display

[Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>]

Is the application you're trying to launch actually a Cygwin X application ?
If not then both the mailing lists you mailed are unsuitable for your query.

I'd suggest trying ticking the "allow this service to interact with the
desktop" box on the logon tab of the service properties. this will mean you
have a spare window from the sshd service though. Is this doesn't help then
try asking on the main Cygwin list (cygwin@cygwin.com) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Bauer [mailto:Axel_Bauer@gmx.de]
> Sent: 13 January 2003 14:15
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; cygwin-announce@cygwin.com
> Subject: Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation
> which is using the windows display
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> I have the problem to start an application on windows 2000 
> from a unix host.
> I decided to do that task over ssh because of security reasons. The
> application has to use the display of the windows workstation.
> I installed cygwin on the windows host and configured the 
> ssh-deamon as a
> windows service. Now I can login from a linux host to the 
> windows machine, but
> I have a problem to start an application with a graphical 
> surface. If I try
> to start notepad.exe for example, the shells hangs and I have 
> to stop with
> CTRL-C. 
> 
> If I call a Cygwin-Shell on the windows-host directly and 
> type "notepad" the
> application works correctly. 
> If I try a "ssh localhost" on the Cygwin-Shell I have the 
> same problem as
> described above.
> 
> Of course I know about the mechanisms of forwarding displays under
> unix/linux (like: xhost + hostname, export DISPLAY= 
> hostname:x.x,,... ), but this
> seems not to work, because I want to connect to a display of 
> a windows host and
> not to another X-Server.
> 
> Can anyone help me ?
> 
> Axel Bauer
> 
> Philips Medical Systems
> Boeblingen, Germany
> 
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