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Re: Launching an X app and getting access to the local (win32) drives
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Steve wrote:
> Thanks alexander, I was thinking about that but thought there was some
> mechanism in cygwin/X to do that. One more question on the topic:
>
> Would it be better to just share a "cygwin/X access" folder on a local drive
> and work through that?
>
> Sharing the local drives on each user's windows workstation needs to be done
> carefully or it could create a security issue. I guess this goes back to how
> the user authenticates to the Linux server (samba, ldap, AD, etc.) and if
> those credentials are the same from the client workstation to the linux
> server.
If you want to work remotly, store your data remote. What you try to accomplish
is broken by design.
Give the users a remote storage which is available as home directory on all hosts
and let them work there. If data is not intended to be put on the remote storage
then it should be used local only anyway.
To access data on the hosts create shares for each drive with user authentication.
KDE and Gnome can access thes shares with password request. Don't mount them automaticly
bye
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