I've been using psexec for a while to do admin tasks and its very helpful. The other day I was looking at the online help and discovered the "-i" interactive switch so I started messing around with it and doing some research. This website explains the feature this way:
"For example, the following PsExec command will open the notepad.exe process on the remote computer and display it on the local user’s desktop:
psexec -i \\lon-srv01 notepad"
So at first I couldn't get it to work but then I found a few tips that helped and now I can invoke psexec with the "-i" switch from an administrator cmd prompt on my laptop, and use this syntax to launch an application on my workstation remotely.
Working syntax: PsExec.exe -i 5 -s \\<remotePC> regedit
So in this case, regedit launches on the remote machine but not on my local machine. Is my understanding of the interactive feature incorrect? I'm assuming the GUI should load on my local machine as well so I can do admin tasks. Am I wrong? Is the article I quoted wrong?
I'm seeing "interactive" in the documentation and assuming I can interact with the application GUI locally, similar to how I can interact with a linux application like Gedit remotely using a third party app like MobaXterm.
Can someone set me straight here?
Thanks,
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When I launch an application locally via its .desktop file, windows are grouped by Gnome.
When I use an identical file, but using ssh -X in the Exec line, to launch the application on a remote machine using X11 forwarding, the application runs fine, but Gnome doesn't group the application windows at all. This is very annoying.
My two problem applications in this regard are emacs and PyCharm. There is widespread advice to set StartupWMClass in the .desktop file, but this doesn't solve the problem.
Can anyone help, please?
I have created a virtual linux machine from amazon web services... the terminal that opens up is the gitbash prompt. I'm trying to open any web browser but I couldnt find a command to do so. I have tried xdg-open, start and several other commands that I came across but they wouldnt work. Please assist me!
The text based lynx is usually installed by default. Otherwise if X-windows is installed and configured, the shell command "startx" will start a GUI session.
But gitbash is tiny and is void of most packages to reduce space...
usually, school recommends using PuTTY with X-win32 to access and run linux software remotely on a window machine.
PuTTY is basically a tool to SSH into the linux machine from my understanding. Since I need to use github on my windows as well, git packages its own bash shell as a whole of git, so can it work with x-win32? I dont want to have two bash shell running just for convenience.
If it does, how to set it up? Anything different from setting up Putty?
Thanks!
I have downloaded Windows PowerShell SSH Server from Here. So, now i can ssh from Linux to Windows, and get to PowerShell.
But if i use another way, connect from Windows to Linux via SSH, i can run something like Midnight Commander or other File Manager. How can i run some File Manager under PowerShell under SSH from Linux?
I tried to run Far Manager, but not succeeded.
I don't believe such an interactive application is possible to be programmed in command prompt or PowerShell. So there is no way to do this even within PowerShell, let alone connect to PowerShell from a Linux system via SSH.
As pointed out by Ansgar Wiechers in the comment below, there are some File managers that run locally in a command prompt or PowerShell, but not in an SSH session.
When using Eclipse over X-Windows on a remote shell (X port forwarding), is there a way to simply detach my X connection and come back to the process later. For a little more clarity, I'm on a Windows machine and have to reboot. I'd like to keep Eclipse running and come back where I left off. Eclipse is running on my Windows machine through an X-Server connected to a Linux box.
I'm thinking something like tmux could do the trick. However, I do a Ctrl-Z to stop Eclipse and it won't close the Eclipse Window. If I restart the X-Server in Windows, Eclipse fails when I try fg 1. Any other options?
Xpra did everything that I needed, but it was not clear exactly how it worked. I was able to get it working by opening two PuTTY sessions in windows, one server and one client. Also, the Google Code is out-dated. Instead, install from http://xpra.devloop.org.uk/dists/xpra-0.0.7.9.tar.bz2. I'm not sure how it's different, but it worked for me. The README tells how to build the package. It is necessary to apt-get a bunch of other stuff. But, here are the missing pieces on how to get it work as I describe above:
Setup server:
cd ~/download/xpra/xpra-0.0.7.9
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/install/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH
./install/bin/xpra start :10
export DISPLAY=:10
xterm&
Setup client:
cd ~/download/xpra/xpra-0.0.7.9
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/install/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH
./install/bin/xpra attach :10
Notes:
The Windows xpra installer is not needed for this configuration. I don't know what it's supposed to do.
Be sure to run Xming on Windows.
Be sure to enable X port forwarding on the client PuTTY window.
Launch whatever you want from the xterm window. (ie Eclipse)
You can close the server window once xterm is up.
Hit ctrl-c in the client window to detach from the session.
Do all the client commands again to re-attach..even after restarting PuTTY, the Xming, or Windows itself.
I have zero experience with it, but xpra sounds like exactly what you're looking for.