FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Mulcahy
Hi, I recently started migrating users to a Windows domain. We have all been using Cygwin for some time but now in the domain I am experiencing problems. Worse still I can not revert to a working version. I have tried reinstalling and uninstalling but the same problems persist. I am probably

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Paul Mulcahy wrote: Hi, I recently started migrating users to a Windows domain. We have all been using Cygwin for some time but now in the domain I am experiencing problems. Worse still I can not revert to a working version. I have tried reinstalling and uninstalling but the same problems

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Mulcahy
And the message is? The message is: A fatal error has occurred and cygwin/x will now exit. Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more information. I have attached the log. We prefer that you attach rather than append your cygcheck output. Apologies, I was having issues posting to the list. I

Having problems with matlab when sshing using Cygwin

2007-11-29 Thread Scott Mohnkern
I'm not sure if this is the right place to pose the question, but I thought I'd start here. We've got several machine that have cygwin with X installed, when we ssh from them to an HP-UX box and attempt to run an application matlab (which opens up a new window), everything appears to work

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Mulcahy
I have noticed that when logged in as 'administrator' everything works but not as a user. Is there anything in particular that Xwin does that that a domain may not allow? ___ Paul Mulcahy Systems Manager Telcotec +353 1 290 9242 -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Holger Krull
Paul Mulcahy schrieb: Maybe you have a problem with ntfs file permissions. The domain users must have at least write access to tmp and their home directory, and read access to most of the rest. The domain Administrator I suspect it is somewhere in permissions but I have allowed the user and

RE: Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Mulcahy
You could use sysinternals process monitor to track file and registry access From what I can see nothing is even failing! It's like it just won't work. I assume other people have Cygwin working in a windows domain. Was there some trick? Did you just install as admin and it worked for users?

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Paul Mulcahy wrote: Maybe you have a problem with ntfs file permissions. The domain users must have at least write access to tmp and their home directory, and read access to most of the rest. The domain Administrator usually is in the local Administrators group and will have access (depending

Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-29 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings. I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: XWin -query d-tuxedo where d-tuxedo is the X Server. It works well with xinit. Here is the

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, DISPLAY on the Linux box must be set to the IP address of the cygwin box. But DISPLAY on the cygwin box must be set to either localhost or the IP address of this machine. You also must have some method to communicate between both machines. I always used telnet as it was all locally

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-29 Thread jose isaias cabrera
d-tuxedo 00:32:35- set | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 what should it be? - Original Message - From: Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server Hi, jose

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: I did this for years using FreeBSD as the server. No problems. XWin