Cygwin Win-stall on 98, SSH to Mandrake won't run GUI

[Harold L Hunt II]

Botl,

You are trying to do one of two things:

1) Display remote X apps that are launched from a console (ssh or 
telnet) on the remote machine.  This is documented here:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html

2) Get a GUI session on the remote machine, just as if you were sitting 
on the console.  This is documented here:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html


Hope that helps,

Harold

Botl J. Rokit wrote:

> Everyone, I hate to ask you this, but I'm just too green.  Before we get into the rightful rattletrap about GUI crutches, my end users are all Win-dependent, and anything that I can remotely kick off and force their hand at is more beautiful than you'd ever know.
> 
> I have installed Cygwin on a Windows 98 and 2000 computer (twice over, two different boxes), and have been able to command-prompt over to my new Mandrake Linux 9.1 computers.  I can even get to root, of course!  I simply can't get the GUI to come up, when I attempt to run things like MCC (Mandrake Control Center).  I get this message:
> 
> Unknown terminal: cygwin
> Check the TERM environment variable.
> Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
> Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired
> termcap entry.
> tset: unknown terminal type cygwin
> Terminal type?
> 
> Now at this point, I get to enter either "cygwin" (which ends up saying, again, "Unknown terminal: cygwin") or "vt100" (just to shut it up).  At that point, I get a remark that says 
> 
> Erase is backspace.
> 
> And that's that.  Being incredibly new, I'm not even certain *where* to look.  I can say, however, that I *suspect* that it's because I haven't defined something on either of my linux b0x3n.  And that I'm a total newbie.
> 
> Thanks for the help.  Seriously.
> 
> Eric Geater
> Botl J. Rokit
>