network installation problems (again)

[D. Boland]

Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 01.01.2016 um 09:44 schrieb D. Boland:
>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am again having problems to install cygwin on a network drive. It's 
>>> in the same network I had similar problems before:
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-11/msg00034.html
>>> which were then resolved after a while.
>>> The client machines are now new, running Windows 7. Domain server is 
>>> the old one.
>>> My description log of actions and popup errors is attached below. 
>>> There was no way to install on the network. I could install to the C: 
>>> drive and move that over to the network where it would then run.
>>>
>>
>> Happy new year, y'all!
>>
>> You shouldn't try to install Cygwin on a network share and execute it 
>> locally. That's like installing and running Linux on a Samba share.
>>
>> If you want to use a single Cygwin distro on all computers in your 
>> network, you should install it on the target host, including the 
>> openssh daemon. Then on the client machines, you use Putty to log on 
>> to the host.
> I need Cygwin on the network clients, not on a server (and this has been 
> working for years, just with occasional install problems).
> Also (if I understand your first sentence correctly), I did not try to 
> install centrally for client use, but to install on a client for that 
> client's use, just on a network drive. And in fact that's the only 
> option on that system which is a lab network and the local (C:) drives 
> are cleared after each reboot.
> ------
> Thomas
> 
So you're kind of hacking into your lab computers, right? :-) I noticed 
something in your original output:

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Fehler
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Directory H:\tmp does not exist, would you like me to create it?
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Ja   Nein
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And:

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Cygwin Setup
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Cannot open log file L:\TGI\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing
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OK
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That's strange. Setup tries to install on different disks. Does the 
network share change each time you log on?

Daniel