Windows dialer starts when doing ssh

[Christopher Faylor]

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.