On Nov 26, 2007 10:56 AM, Roger Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please forgive my silence and I really do appreciate your attention to my
> problem.
> I originally posted my question on the cygwin-apps list and at Corinna's
> suggestion I
> posted it on this list without realizing that I was not subscribed. I only
> now have
> seen your responses as I searched the archives. I can now provide a specific
> example
> of what I am doing.
>
> On one cygwin installation:
> uname -a => CYGWIN_NT-5.1 dac1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 14:21 i686 Cygwin
>
> the following command on the linux client:
> ssh wellsr start foo.exe
> results in a windows console popping up with the application (foo) running in
> it.
> control immediately returns to the linux console.
>
> The key to this working is the following script ("start")
> that runs on the cygwin machine:
>
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> #
> # There must be no spaces in the title field of the start command
> # Otherwise, this seems to work, but I don't know how!
> #
> #
> export XAPPLRESDIR="C:\iss60\app-def"
> cmd /c start /I \ $1\ $2 $3 $4 $5 $6
>
> (obviously the last line is the operative one)
>
> on another cygwin installation:
> uname => CYGWIN_NT-5.1 wellsr 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
>
> the same sequence launches the application and returns control to the linux
> console but in this case there is no console window on the cygwin side. The
> application appears on the task list but no window exists.
>
When the sshd service is installed on the cygwin machine, you must
make sure that "Interact with desktop" has been enabled. I suspect it
was enabled on the one machine, but not the other. On the system that
is not working, reinstall the cygwin sshd service, and enable that
option.
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