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Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation which is using the windows display
- From: Axel Bauer <Axel_Bauer at gmx dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com,cygwin-announce at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:14:36 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation which is using the windows display
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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