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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:45:53 +0000
From: Harry Erwin <harry DOT erwin AT sunderland DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: NT Problems
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>On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:14:17 -0500, Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>  On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:47:09AM +0000, Harry Erwin wrote:
>>  >We're trying to install cygwin on an NT-based network. The
>>  >installation is to the C: drive, while the students have write-access
>>  >only to the H: drive, which contains their home directories. When we
>    ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  >kick off bash and cd to H:/, we get an indication that we're in
>>  >/cygdrive/h/, but when we try a dir or ls on that, we crash hard.
>
>I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check
>your mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs.
>
>Ehud.

Apparently not the problem. It has to do with the networked drive, 
H:. Anyone know of issues involving networked drives?

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Harry Erwin, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Computing, University of 
Sunderland. Computational neuroscientist modeling bat bioacoustics 
and behavior. <http://world.std.com/~herwin> 

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