Hi, On Wed, 16 May 2001, Al Borchers wrote: > Open SSH does X and port forwarding; I've never tried this with Cygwin ssh, > though. Works just like any ol' OpenSSH (ssh -X). Of course you need an X server on Windows. Cygwin _does_ have xfree (it's a seperate downl;oad) but it's slower than hell and doesn't seem to work right on WinME. > Now I just need to take the time to really get Cygwin configured--anyone > know how to set up /etc/hosts on Cygwin? It does not seem to read it. I think you need to update Windows' HOSTS.TXT or whatever the hell it is today. > Do I need to use some Windows mechanism to map hostnames to IP addresses? Oh, yeah. Search for HOSTS.*, I forgot what it is. -Yaron --