using cygwin sshd and xwin to launch window application from remote client

Could be a flaming thread but hope you dont mind a question from a curious Joe here.

I have Desktop computer running downstairs running with winxp pro,cygwin,sshd,xwin. Whilst that, I am working upstair with my laptop and my wife will be using the desktop downstair(watching movie,etc,etc). My laptop upstairs is already loaded with Mobaxterm (which actually translate to cygwin as well).

I have already configure my desktop properly with user and ssh and xwin. When I use my laptop to ssh into desktop downstairs, starting the xclock, all works fine. I can see the xclock on my laptop.

Here is my question:

1. Is it possible now to run firefox(C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox.exe) on my desktop via ssh and getting the display to laptop, so I could control the desktop downloading from upstairs.
2. After I ssh to my desktop downstair and when I try

   cd \cygdrive\c\Program/ Files\Mozilla

   开发者_StackOverflow中文版 ./Firefox

   Nothing came through display on my laptop.

Any advice. I know vnc could work but meaning to say it would interupt my wife work periodically where she is using on the desktop downstair. And, I have already intended to buy another nettop to do this.

Is there any solutions to this for the time being?

Thanks.

This won't work the way you are describing it. You are using SSH + Xwindows to remotely display unix programs like xclock, not native Windows apps like firefox. You need to see if you can get Firefox compiled for cygwin on X. I have no idea if it is even possible, you may want to search with keywords "firefox xwindows cygwin".

You may be able to do something with Remote Desktop, I'm not sure if it would interrupt your wife's work though. There's a write-up with using it over ssh here.