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Re: Cygwin on a Share...?


--- "Masterson, David" <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com> wrote:
> Has anyone setup Cygwin so that it resides on an NT share that all NT's in
> their domain can access and use it from?  By this, I mean that Cygwin would
> physically reside on and run from this central NT rather than having
> everyone download and (possibly wrongly) install Cygwin on their local
> systems.  This is the NFS model from UNIX and makes things much easier to
> administer and upgrade.   Anyone have a step-by-step?
> 

This should work; but, would be slow for anything serious.  Each
workstation/user would have it's own copy of the mounted directories so you
should export a registry to be uploaded on the client machines.

Let us know how it goes.

Good Luck,

=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cygwin Newbies, please visit
<http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>
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