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RE: Installing Cygwin Under W2k


Sorry for not reading the problems I will try your ideas and let you know the outcome

joolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:33 PM
> To: Joolz [RSD]
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin Under W2k
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Julian Gardner wrote:
> 
> > I have some trouble installing Cygwin under W2k.
> >
> > If I install it under W2k as a standalone workstation or on a fresh
> > workstation not joined to a domain, all is OK.
> >
> > But, if I try to install Cygwin on a workstation already in 
> service and
> > joined to a domain (also W2k server) I cannot get it to 
> install correctly or
> > run.
> >
> > I am assuming it is something to do with the W2K server 
> changing the local
> > domain name for the W2K workstation but I need to know how 
> to fix it.
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Joolz
> 
> First and foremost, you should have attached the output of 
> "cygcheck -svr"
> from a non-working machine as an uncompressed non-inline text 
> attachment
> (as per <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>).
> 
> Without that information, all I can do is venture a guess, 
> which is that
> you most likely log in as a domain user, and mkpasswd doesn't 
> pick up the
> correct groups.  Try "mkpasswd -d -u YourUser YourDomain >> 
> /etc/passwd"
> and "mkgroup -d YourDomain >> /etc/group".
> 	Igor
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