Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: My understanding is that this cannot be done. MS Windows is NOT a network aware windowing system like X. Well, it is, but you have to pay for Terminal Services if you want that capability. I don't think that that allows you to run say notepad and display it somewhere else. I

Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > DAVID SPEAR wrote: > > > I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... > > from the reading I've done in this group the easiest way is to run ssh > > and log in as Administrator. An excellent solution, and one that > > works for me. I am curious > >

Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Actually, most of the first ten or so hits are outdated. David, you can simply add the "-i" (--interactive) flag to cygrunsrv when setting up sshd (you can temporarily edit the ssh-host-config script -- line 556 for Win2003, line 563 otherwise). Note that this will cause a CMD window to pop up fo

Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DAVID SPEAR wrote: I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... from the reading I've done in this group the easiest way is to run ssh and log in as Administrator. An excellent solution, and one that works for me. I am curious as to how I might launch a Windows applicatio

Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-22 Thread Brian Ford
Start here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=interact+with+desktop+sshd+site%3Acygwin.com&btnG=Google+Search On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, DAVID SPEAR wrote: > I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... from the > reading I've done in this group the easiest w

launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

2004-01-22 Thread DAVID SPEAR
I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... from the reading I've done in this group the easiest way is to run ssh and log in as Administrator. An excellent solution, and one that works for me. I am curious as to how I might launch a Windows application from my root ssh