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RE: Mounting private dir on /tmp


in bash shell

for example

mount c:/local-directory /tmp

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@well.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Mounting private dir on /tmp
> 
> 
> How do I mount a local directory as /tmp?
> 
> I've got all of cygwin and XFree86 on a Linux Samba server share
> (\\server\cygwin) so that / is mounted to x:\. The share is 
> set up with
> forced user and group so any user connecting looks like the same
> pseudo-user on the Linux box.
> 
> I've now got XFree86 working with xdm and XDMCP on Linux. The hardest
> part was having to delete \tmp\.X11-unix before each session, because
> trans_mkdir complains if the directory exists, something about "inode
> changed". This might be related to the directory being on a Samba
> share.
> 
> I'd now like to make XFree86 available to a user on another NT4
> workstation. To this end I need a private /tmp for each user 
> for the X0
> file created in /tmp/.X11-unix. I'm not sure how to accomplish this. I
> tried bring up bash and entering "mount -b c:\tmp /tmp" but I get the
> message "mount: /tmp: Invalid argument". What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Ken
> mailto:shiva@well.com
> http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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