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Re: logging onto a PC running Cygwin from another workstation
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On Thursday 19 Oct 00, Charles Werner writes:
> David,
> Thanks for the rapid reply-- I appreciate this very much.
> The PC is running NT4 under cygwin ="CYGPC". The workstation is a SUN
> running Solaris="SUN".
> I want CYGPC to act as a server: I want to log onto the CYGPC from the SUN.
OK.
> I've made some progress:
>
> I read the documentation in /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README
You mean you hadn't before? Sheesh...
> and also fixed the bug in iu-config that was mentioned in the
> mailing list. When I started inetd from the command line (NT4) the
> services were running, but I could not log in, since my password was
> always rejected.
>
> next I have attemped the inetd --install-as-service approach
> but the PC complained that cygwin1.dll was not in the path.
> I've now added C:\cygwin\bin into the system path. and I will try again.
>
> What does the environment variable CYGWIN have to be set to: I am referring
> to the following paragraph in the README.
> I would prefer not to change the registry.
You may not need to set CYGWIN at all. The settings are documented in
the User's Guide at <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>.
> For all application started via NT/W2K service manager under
> LocalSystem account, the following restrictions apply:
>
> - The environment variable CYGWIN must be either set in the system
> environment to be active from start on or you can set CYGWIN thru
> the registry:
> Under the key HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
> create a key of type REG_SZ (String) named like the full DOS path
> to the application, eg. "C:\usr\bin\inetd.exe" and with the value
> equal to the preferred CYGWIN settings, eg "binmode tty ntsec".
>
> - The system environment variable PATH must contain the path
> to the directory which contains the cygwin1.dll.
>
> - No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
> your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
> change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
> via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
> mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
> ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
> authentication.
>
> What does it mean that that the mount points are invalid?
It means that when you ran setup.exe to install Cygwin, you should
have chosen "Install For: All" rather than "Just Me".
What?!? Too late?!? Bugger!
(Just kidding, you can repair it with the mount command. I'm working
on a FAQ entry.)
> After I login in, will I be in a cygwin environment?
Now go read the login README file.
Hope this helps.
David
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