Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-22 Thread Hans Dekker
Hi Steve, Being triggered when you mentioned you are using SAS, here is another solution that may help you. You can change the scripts with secure shells as you like. We are using sas too. I have installed cygwin to be able to remotely use it, which works fine apart from some nitty gritty

Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Howie
Howdy, We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very impressed. However, we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some pre-defined 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run SAS then have the output sent to an cygwin-xfree server. Unix commands are not the forte

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote: Howdy, We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very impressed. However, we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some pre-defined 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run SAS then have the output sent to an

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Howie
Alexander Gottwald wrote: [ .. ] First try: MYIP=`hostname -i` rexec host -l username setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas but hostname -i does not work on cygwin. But maybe the name of the host is sufficient MYIP=`hostname` rexec host -l username setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas

RE: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Braverman
] Subject: Re: Initiating a remote X session On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote: Howdy, We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very impressed. However, we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some pre-defined 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:28:58AM -0500, Steve Howie wrote: We currently use X-Win32 which has a nifty feature for getting around this - you can specify $MYIP:0 which picks up the current IP address of the X-server and passes it to the session definition which is sent to the host which

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote: Or even better, Use ssh: DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X host -l username /opt/SAS82/sas ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred data is sent via the ssh tunnel. Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Steve, Steve Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under cygwin to front end this with a username/password pop-up window? That'd be ideal :) If you don't really care