Cygwin/X and loggin on remote server

[Jani Tiainen]

Jani Tiainen wrote:
> Jani Tiainen wrote:
> 
>> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've used cygwin/x to use remote wm and tools for a long time, and I 
>>>> use connection via SSH tunnel since connection between machines are 
>>>> not secured.
>>>>
>>>> Now I would like to provide more generic way to login on remote 
>>>> machine, I can do this with startxwin.bat but I want to close 
>>>> initial _local_ xterm used to get login & password prompt after it 
>>>> has fired up session... How can be this done...?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> start xterm like this:
>>> xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost .xsession && exit"
>>>
>>> or (simulating xdm login)
>>> xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome && exit"
>>>
>>> instead of "gnome" you can use kde, kde2 or whatever window managers 
>>> are configured on the system.
>>>
>>> If you omit the "&& exit" the xterm will stay
>>
>>
>>
>> wow, my bug was that I omited "-f" from ssh switches and "&& exit", I 
>> tried & (single) and it always failed with error... =)
>>
>> Now it works. Thank you very much, now I can use my desktop as single 
>> click X-terminal.
>>
>> I also tried to run XDM but always got "only root would run" message...
> 
> 
> Actually this doesn't work.
> 
> I use following line (using startxwin.bat):
> 
> run xterm -ms red -fg white -bg black -e "/usr/bin/ssh -f -Y -p 22022 
> myaccount@my.ip.com xterm && exit"
> 
> But initial xterm window stays, even you can't write anything in it...

Actually it started to work after I changed to use it script that puts 
everything in background...

Strange is that but now "everything" works as supposed... Well only if I 
could have nice graphical login to my server...

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Jani Tiainen