RE: Getting Windows GUI applications to work

I have installed copssh to d:\program files, and as much as I
remember, you can specify the installation location. I am using
version 1.3 10, the installation was done last summer, the download
was on 22. May.

         Ferenc Telbisz

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Travis, Shane (GE Healthcare) wrote:

> My own problem with copSSH is that (the last time I checked) it could
> only install in one place; there was no facility to install it to
> another location. This meant that the root directory on connecting to a
> given machine was always the same -- C:\ if I recall correctly.
>
> For business applications, it is important to our customers to be able
> to install it on different drives, and in a lower directory -- e.g. to
> F:\application\ssh-home. With such an install location, we can access
> the machine securely without having access to the *whole* machine... not
> all of which may be 'ours' to play with.
>
> Has this changed in the last year-ish? (Been about that long since I
> last looked at it.) Or did I perhaps misunderstand how to run the
> installer in the first place?
>
> (I think the other problem our customers had with copSSH was that it was
> not truly 'open source', in that we could not look at the installation
> code to see exactly what it was putting where. OpenSSH provides its
> installer's source code, which we have examined and recompiled for our
> own usage.)
>
> I would love to go to copSSH (or any other 'more current' SSH
> installation for Windows), and am probably not alone... but for us, at
> least, these two items stand in the way of us doing so.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ssh@erdelynet.com [mailto:ssh@erdelynet.com] On Behalf Of
> Herr, Stephen
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:59 AM
> To: ssh@erdelynet.com
> Subject: RE: Getting Windows GUI applications to work
>
>
> Kyle,
>
> OpenSSH for Windows was the same as SSH on Cygwin 2 or 3 years
> ago. OpenSSH for Windows has not been improved in quite a
> while.
> The Cygwin solution is the most direct way but the copSSH
> solution
> is basically the same but has the advantage of an installer that
> wraps
> all the necessary Cygwin stuff in one package without all the
> decision
> making and all the individual configuration steps. It sets up a
> couple
> of very handy scripts to add, remove and configure various parts
> of the
> ssh(d) environment. I would give copSSH a whirl and see if it
> meets
> your needs before continuing on down the OpenSSH for Windows
> path. Why start on a dead branch when there is an actively
> supported
> branch that is very up to date relative to the original OpenSSH
> in the
> BSD world.
>
> Stephen
>
> Stephen A. Herr
> herrs@contechbridge.com <mailto:sherr@contechbridge.com>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ssh@erdelynet.com [mailto:ssh@erdelynet.com] On Behalf Of
> Kyle Getz
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1614
> To: ssh@erdelynet.com
> Subject: Getting Windows GUI applications to work
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to execute Windows GUI applications through SSH but
> I'm running into some problems.
>
> Here's what happens on a Windows XP machine running OpenSSH for
> Windows:
>
> 1. I open a Remote Desktop session to the machine.
> 2. I also log into the machine via PuTTY.
> 3. After logging in, I run "calc" via PuTTY. I am immediately
> returned to the prompt.
> 4. When I look at the Task Manager (through Remote Desktop), I
> see calc.exe, but there is no window.
>
>
> Here's what happens on a different Windows XP machine running
> sshd through Cygwin:
>
> 1. I open a Remote Desktop session to the machine.
> 2. I also log into the machine via PuTTY.
> 3. After logging in, I run "calc" via PuTTY. I am not returned
> to the prompt.
> 4. In the Remote Desktop window, I see the calculator window pop
> up.
> 5. I close the calculator window (through Remote Desktop), and I
> am returned to the prompt in my PuTTY window.
>
>
> Obviously, I want the latter behavior, but I want it to work
> with OpenSSH for Windows. Does anyone know what I need to do?
>
>
>
> - Kyle Getz
>
>
>
>
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               Ferenc Telbisz

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