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Re: Accessing Cygwin from a LAN PC


On 21 Jun, zzapper wrote:
>  Sorry bet this is a Cygwin chestnut.
>  
>  I would like to access CygWin on my PC from other PCs on our LAN.
>  
>  I guess VNC , but which flavour?  Other solutions?
>  
>  zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
>  --

Or is this information more what you were after?

------ Forwarded message ------
         From: "Matthew O. Persico" 
      Subject: Re: Shared installs
         Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:43:37 -0400


On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:18:09 -0400, "Christopher Faylor" said:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:06:27PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
>> I installed Cygwin today at work onto a network drive.  I added
>> the
>> cygwin bin to my path and all was well.  I then added the path to
>> a
>> coworker's machine, but it failed miserably.  Then I remembered
>> that
>> there were some registry entries for mounting that needed to be
>> installed.
>
> The tool you need is mount.
>
> Just typing "mount" will show you how your mount table is laid out.
>
> Typing "mount -m" will show you the commands to recreate the mount
> table on another drive (assuming consistent drive lettering).
>
> Even better, typing "man mount" will show you how to use mount.

How about an FAQ entry:

How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?

Having more than one person to be able to access a single shared instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a local install:

1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive you pick will have the same drive letter for everyone.
2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS path to the cygwin bin to PATH
3) Fire up a shell and type
	mount -m > remount.sh
4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin bin to the PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to cygwin.bat




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