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Re: Initiating a remote X session


Alexander Gottwald wrote:

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First try:
MYIP=`hostname -i`  rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"

but hostname -i does not work on cygwin. But maybe the name of the host is sufficient
MYIP=`hostname` rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"



But ipconfig does ...


$ ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $15}'

will get the IP address, but no idea if this would work for older Windoze such as W95 (yes some people still use it :))


Or even better, Use ssh:

DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X <host> -l <username> "/opt/SAS82/sas"

ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred data is sent via the ssh tunnel.



Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under cygwin to front end this with a username/password pop-up window? That'd be ideal :)


Thanks again for your help, Alexander

Scotty


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