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On 3/10/2010 5:59 PM, John Sambrook wrote:
> Regarding mount tables, I'm assuming the issue is that the mount-table
> is modified on a per-user basis.  So a single, shared-over-the-network
> version isn't going to hack it.  Correct?

A single user with Cygwin installed on a network location is just like
a local install for that user except for the extra network overhead.
So 'setup.exe' will do this for you very nicely.

> I also suspect that there are probably packages in a full-up
> distribution that write into locations in the distribution tree.  For
> example, if I fire up pdflatex, I believe it invokes (kpathsea?) to
> build font-files or something along those lines.

This can happen, though not typically.

> I would guess there is also the question of where writable directories
> like /tmp and /var reside.  Should I have one network-wide shared /tmp
> or should each client somehow get its own?  I'd prefer the latter.

The latter.  You'd also need at least your home directories to be
writable at least.

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