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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:33:55 -0400
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin AT insight DOT rr DOT com>
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I frequently install cygwin only on ONE server and share that copy for multiple clients. 
The clients are Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT.  After you manually get the mounts
established the way you want them to be, cynwin works well on clients.  The setup program
was NOT used to setup the clients.

There is only one side effect.  On Windows 2000, you get an obscure message about not
accessing somethng under /etc when the DLL first gets loaded.  I just ignore this error.

Hint in setting up the clients....
	On your cygwin server, create the following .bat file:
		$ mount -m >/bin/domounts.bat
	then edit this file to:
		- reflect the network drives letters you are using
		- ensure that every line ends in \r\n
	then on your client, open up a cmd window, cd to your network drive
	and the cygwin/bin directory and execute domounts.bat

_Paul McFerrin


Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> I can think of one reason...portability.  Say you kept an install on nfs
> and wanted to have access to it on any computer you went to.  It would be
> handy in a university environment where you don't have access to/don't
> want to modify the registry.  Of course I've never tried this personally,
> but I'm sure others have.  As a possible solution, if you can access the
> registry, you could find the keys that cygwin adds, then edit the cygwin
> batch file to load/unload the keys as necessary.  In fact they did it at
> my university to implement roaming profiles on 95/98.  I'm sure there are
> other ways this could be achieved.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> 
> --- "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com> wrote:
> > > From: John [mailto:lists AT shell DOT reiteration DOT net]
> > > Subject: Re: registry question
> > > Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > > At 11:22 AM 5/30/2002, John wrote:
> > > > >Quick question: can cygwin be installed on an NT machine
> > > > >without modifying the registry?
> > > >
> > > > No, there is currently no option to do this via setup.
> > >
> > > Cheers for the quick reply Harry.
> > >
> > > Is there a 'manual' way to setup that would not involve the setup
> > tool?
> > > Are registry keys required for cygwin to work? or is there a
> > workaround?
> >  Is there some reason you don't want to modify the registry?
> > This request seems very strange to me.
> >
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