Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread René Berber
Brad wrote: [snip] Would anyone care to: a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin? No. But /etc/resolv.conf does if you installed minires. b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when trying to resolve hostnames? Haven't tried it myself but

Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread LDR
Brad wrote: Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put

Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-13 Thread Brad
Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put in the