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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:54:38 -0800
From: Jeffrey Gruen <gruen DOT lab AT yale DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Cygwin server
To: Larry Hall <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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
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