Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/05/11:40:40
OK, you should probably take a look at inetd/sshd. Checkout the readmes
for these packages. With these, you should be able to set up the NT machine
with the proper services so that you can remotely login (maybe via telnet
from your Macs?) and run Cygwin sh/bash this way. This would be pretty
similar to the like functionality on UNIX systems, if you're familiar at
all with that.
Good luck,
Larry
At 11:54 AM 2/5/2001, Jeffrey Gruen wrote:
>Hi Larry,
>
>Thanks very much for your rapid reply.
>
>I think your description of "access through a share" sounds right.
>
>In short, here is what I would like to do:
>I have a small lab where we run different unix-based genetics programs. We
>found Cygwin to be a particularly good platform to run one of our more
>processor-intensive programs (called TRANSMIT). We currently run TRANSMIT on
>Cygwin that has been compiled on an NT Workstation - the only NT machine that we
>have in our lab, the rest are macs. Because of the different projects that we
>have going, with different databases, it would be convenient for us to run our
>programs on a centrally located Cygwin server from some of these other computers
>that we have in the lab. For example, sometimes our Cygwin genetics program
>will take 12-24 hours to run. If Cygwin were available to me over the net, I
>could check on the progress from my office computer (or even perhaps my home
>computer) and then when it has completed it's run, start another run, or go over
>the data, or port the data to another program, etc.
>
>I have thought about running a unix shell on the macintosh, but I am not sure
>that is something I want to do. In addition, our current NT machine has a 900Mb
>processor and 40Gb of hard drive space. This permits TRANSMIT to run pretty
>fast. I don't know if I would get this kind of speed running a unix shell on
>any of our Macs right now.
>
>Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I am pretty new to Cygwin, and
>understand very little about it, or about networking.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Jeff Gruen
>---------------------------
>
>Larry Hall wrote:
>
> > At 09:53 PM 2/4/2001, Jeffrey Gruen wrote:
> > >Hello:
> > >
> > >Here is another elementary question from a new (and happy) user of cygwin.
> > >
> > >We are currently running cygwin off a WindowsNT machine (not server). It
> > >would be nice to run cygwin as a server from this machine. (The machine is
> > >already connected and running on a our University network). Would I have to
> > >load WindowsNT-Server onto my machine to make this happen? Or could I use
> > >Apache? Or is there a simpler way to do this that I have overlooked? Or is
> > >it possible that no matter what, I will not be able to make Cygwin available
> > >as a server?
> >
> > Can you clarify what you mean by "make Cygwin available as a server"? Many
> > people have installed Cygwin on a machine and had other machines access it
> > through a share. Is this what you mean?
> >
> > Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
> > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
> > 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>
>
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