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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple