Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Pavel Ivanoff wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Peshansky > > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:27 PM > > To: Pavel Ivanoff > > Subject: RE: New windows from cygwin in ssh > > > > You weren't clear on exactly what you want to happen. If you wish to > > see the window pop up on the remote machine's desktop, you need to add > > the "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkmark in the sshd > > service description (or, alternatively, install it with the '-i' > > cygrunsrv flag). > > > > If you want the window to be forwarded over to the local machine > > (i.e., the one you're ssh'ing from), that is not currently possible > > with Windows. One thing you can try is use a tool like VNC (which you > > can forward over ssh, too). > > As I understand "Allow service to interact with desktop" is exactly what > I want. But this checkbox is active only when service los on as SYSTEM > but my sshd logs on as me. And installing the service with '-i' option > said to me the same: "cygrunsrv: --interactive not allowed with --user". > Is there any solution to this problem? Or I must run service as SYSTEM > to have this functions usable? I'm afraid so. It's unclear why Windows imposes this restriction, but if your sshd is running as a non-SYSTEM user, it can't interact with the desktop. I was going to suggest using "cygstart", but even that apparently doesn't work as-is. It probably can be patched up to obtain the current window station and ask the shell to execute the program there, but <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
