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RE: Mounting private dir on /tmp
- To: "'Kenneth Porter'" <shiva at well dot com>, "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Mounting private dir on /tmp
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:35:19 -0400
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
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