-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Michaud wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Joseph Michaud wrote: >>> I have cygwin installed on a Windows share. I'm trying to use it >>> from another Windows client machine (on which it was never installed) >>> by simply running the bash executable using the UNC path >>> (//share/cygwin/bin/bash.exe -l -i). This isn't working. >>> ... >>> The only other thing I can think of is that the registry is >>> being set up when you do an install and that these registry entries >>> are required when bash is invoked. >>> >>> Are registry entries referenced when running bash? >> >> Cygwin, (somewhat) like linux, sets up a mount table which creates a >> root directory, bin directory and other directories. You can see what's >> created by typing "mount". >> >> The fact that this information is stored in the registry is irrelevant >> (and WILL change eventually). You should use the mount command to >> see how things are set up. >> >>> Is it possible to setup cygwin so that it may be used from a share >>> without having been installed on the client machine? >> >> Possibly. You don't absolutely need the mount table (with the possible >> exception of /tmp) but, if you want to have bash set things up >> automatically, you will need to investigate how bash works, set the >> appropriate environment variables, and use the appropriate command line >> switches. >> >> info bash >> >> may help. Also check out "man mount" paying particular attention to >> "mount -m". >> > > Bingo! That's the trick. As soon as I ran the appropriate mount > commands on my client machines (specifying //share/cygwin...) > everything worked. > > Thanks. > > Joe > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > >
blxt? windows has a way to make //server/share/ mounts look like g:\ filesystems just open up Windows Explorer and check out "Tools/Mount Network Drive" an easy hack to make the system coherent is to use some tool like partitionMagic to make the boot drive something like "U:\" and have cygwin installed in "U:\Cygwin\Cygwin" - on the client machines, mount the network drive onto "U" and it'll run like a charm. convoluted but failsafe just a thought, Morgan Gangwere -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGW2RbCF9T/dUsmAgRAmnXAJ9eMWiI/i5B7htbKA9Q8qyhHL4Z5wCffpJM mc9iam95VCfxZzf4BlQGTt8= =FNr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/