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Re: Cygstart through SSH tunnel


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, davej1983  wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm fairly new to Cygwin, so this might be a pretty simple question, but
> so far I haven't had any luck finding an answer so far.
>
> I have an SSH server running on a remote computer, that I can log into using
> cygwin. While logged, if I use cygstart to try to open a file, or if I try
> to launch a program, it will not fully open/launch. For example, if I try to
> open a text file, notepad.exe will show up in the task manager, but won't
> actually open. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? Any help
> would be appreciated!
>
> Dave
> --

start here to provide us more info:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

I guess that your cygwin user has not the authorization to open/work
with the remote desktop.
If I remember right, the latest version of windows make it more hard
(or impossible ?)


Marco

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