Problems starting command prompt on cygwin on vista ultimate, problems not had on Win2k3SP2   

Hi Vista gurus

We're using CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2)

We were successfully using it on Win2k3SP2 but on Vista ultimate it is not
working as previously.

When we start our application in the cygwin command prompt window, it is not
doing anything but just times out after awhile, terminating the process
started.

The cygwin is setup to use the inetd account with certain user rights that
we used on Win2k3SP2  successfully.

We wonder if on Vista we need to setup cygwin any differently in regards to
user rights and accounts, enironment variables, network access etc etc.?

Many thanks for any solutions, ideas, tests, workarounds etc.,
QA4Ever

date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:19:38 +0200   author:   qa4ever

Re: Problems starting command prompt on cygwin on vista ultimate, problems not had on Win2k3SP2   

why don't you just use this? http://windows.kde.org/




"qa4ever"  wrote in message 
news:O8Zmc9dKJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi Vista gurus
>
> We're using CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2)
>
> We were successfully using it on Win2k3SP2 but on Vista ultimate it is not
> working as previously.
>
> When we start our application in the cygwin command prompt window, it is 
> not
> doing anything but just times out after awhile, terminating the process
> started.
>
> The cygwin is setup to use the inetd account with certain user rights that
> we used on Win2k3SP2  successfully.
>
> We wonder if on Vista we need to setup cygwin any differently in regards 
> to
> user rights and accounts, enironment variables, network access etc etc.?
>
> Many thanks for any solutions, ideas, tests, workarounds etc.,
> QA4Ever
>
>
>

date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:38:06 +0300   author:   the granter of sina

Re: Problems starting command prompt on cygwin on vista ultimate, problems not had on Win2k3SP2   

"qa4ever"  wrote in message 
news:O8Zmc9dKJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi Vista gurus
>
> We're using CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2)
>
> We were successfully using it on Win2k3SP2 but on Vista ultimate it is not
> working as previously.
>
> When we start our application in the cygwin command prompt window, it is 
> not
> doing anything but just times out after awhile, terminating the process
> started.
>
> The cygwin is setup to use the inetd account with certain user rights that
> we used on Win2k3SP2  successfully.

Vista is not Win 2K. If UAC is enabled, it's only looking at the rights of 
user/admin and Standard user.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc138019.aspx
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/always-start-an-application-in-administrator-mode-on-windows-vista/>

>
> We wonder if on Vista we need to setup cygwin any differently in regards 
> to
> user rights and accounts, enironment variables, network access etc etc.?
>
> Many thanks for any solutions, ideas, tests, workarounds etc.,
> QA4Ever

http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3695651
<http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/bf416877-c83f-4476-a3da-8ec98dcf5f101033.mspx>
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx>

date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:10:33 -0400   author:   Mr. Arnold MR.