At 04:39 PM 10/27/2003, Rob S.i.k.l.o.s. you wrote: >From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /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" > >right - that totally works. Thanks a lot. > >Now, is there any way of having sshd run being able to interact with the >desktop, but without having an empty console window hanging around? > >I guess that was probably the point of not allowing sshd to interact with >the desktop in the first place, huh?
Right. ;-) Since it's a console program, if you allow it to interact with the desktop, it's going to create a console for itself. I suppose you could fiddle with running 'cygstart' or 'run' to try to get it to hide the console. That's without fiddling with sshd code that is. I haven't really investigated any of these options but it's just my way of saying that it is quite possible to get a console program to hide the console window. See CreateProcess()/STARTUPINFO documentation for the details on the internals. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
