Re: launching a windows program remotely using ssh

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:33 PM 10/27/2003, Rob S.i.k.l.o.s. you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have an ssh (cygwin) server running on a windows 2000 machine, and I want
>to start a windows program on this machine using a remote command.
>
>My problem is that I can't get the window of the program to display
>anywhere.
>
>For example:
>I run something like "ssh user@computer /c/winnt/system32/notepad.exe"
>
>When I ran this command, I was expecting to see a notepad window open on
>"computer", but none appeared.  Is there any way to accomplish this?
>The process *did* start, because it was listed in the task manager.


See the "--interactive" flag of cygrunsrv.  You need to install ssh (or
any service) with this if you want the service to interact with the 
"desktop"



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