> > Stephen: thanks for your anwser, windows can sometimes be a pain. :) I am posting this here if anyone else would be in the same situation and is in need to run ui tests via ssh slave.
I went and checked the archives for cygwin and basically what I found there was that you can run its' sshd as a regular user in the logged in users desktop, but that it is not supported and that people had problems with it in the past. So I decided to check if there were any other ssh server implementations for Windows that did not (at least officially) force you to run ssh server as a windows service. I found *freeSSHd* and how to setup to run as a regular user process (non service): http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/v1r1m0/topic/com.ibm.iea.wpi_v6/wa/6.2/FTP/WBPMv62_IEA_AdapterInstallConfigureSSHServerLab.pdf?dmuid=20090217132204643973 This actually worked almost all the way, but one problem was that I still could not actually see the tests run in the main desktop of the logged in user. I discovered that freeSSHd ran processes with the logged in user in another desktop separate from the main one, so I needed a way of peek into that desktop. I found this little gem (*EnumWinstaGui* ): http://ikriv.com/dev/cpp/EnumWinstaGui/index.html which lets you switch and peek into the UI of another desktop. The only problem left was that when I needed to run Selenium Webdriver tests with the IEDriver I still could not go all the way, I solved it by setting: - *capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.FORCE_CREATE_PROCESS, true);* when creating the WebDriver - *Windows RegistryHKLM_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main* path should contain key TabProcGrowth with 0 value After this I could run all automated tests with Chrome, Firefox and IE browsers via Jenkins SSH slave and be able to peek at the running tests when needed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
