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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:37:38 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How to start a Win gui app on remote server
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Alexander Polson wrote:

> I would like to execute a command via ssh on a remote Win2000 machine
> (with cygwin and ssh server working OK). Then the gui app must start up
> interactively in a specified Windows directory.
> 
> I found the closest reference to this in the archives under "How to
> launch gui app from cron", but could have missed a closer topic.
> 
> I tried the direct command: ssh user AT remote_host
> /cygdrive/c/path/program.exe, which starts up program.exe, but in
> non-interactive / invisible way.

When you install the sshd service on the remote machine, it will require
the "--interactive" flag to cygrunsrv if it is to launch GUI apps. 
Perhaps the easiest way to accomplish this is to remove the sshd
service, edit ssh-host-config to include the flag on the install line
(cygrunsrv -I sshd ... ) and re-run ssh-host-config to reinstall the
service.

Brian

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