On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:26:33PM -0400, terry wrote: >Thought I'ld try again... I have a Win98se machine running cygwin. >After running startxwin.bat (no multiwindow - twm running) and typing in >'ssh computer' in a terminal window, the windows dialer appears. How >can this happen? > >The windows machine is on a network with only Linux machines, and is set >up with a fixed IP address and name. The windows machine currently uses >a dialup connection for internet/email access, but is being converted to >using them through ssh to a Linux machine (a process that may take a >long while). The ssh works fine after closing the dialer. > >Is there a way to do the same function a /etc/resolve.conf to specify >the domain first as the order for looking for the host?
I don't see anything in this message that has anything to do with XFree86. You should try this query in the general cygwin list.