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From:	"John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: Cygwin from read-only drive
Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:51:20 -0000
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Ivanov Pavel wrote
> 
> Hello, 
> I am trying to start the cygwin from network read-only shared
> drive. I can not edit any files in the drive and I can not add
> the login name and password in cygwin configuration files.

Could you get your network admin to add them once for all
users and just update as new users are added/deleted from the
windows system?

> Can I start the cygwin properly in such case?

You almost certainly can - but home/username/group won't
be right.

> May be I can submit configuration files?

Sure, email them - no promises though, we're all very
mean over here :)

J.

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