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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:55:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Shared Network install accessible by multiple users
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Brian,

There is no reason why this shouldn't work (unless you use some special
type of drive, such as a samba share).  I would guess you'd want to keep
/tmp and /var on a local disk on each machine, but you should be able to
share /bin, /lib and /usr (even in read-only mode).  /etc might be a bit
of a challenge, but if you can figure out how to share /etc/passwd,
/etc/groups, etc, there should be few problems.  Just run setup on each
machine, specifying the network drive as the root.  This should create all
the necessary default mount points.  Then run 'mount -s' for each of the
directories you want to keep locally.  Generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group
(you may need to do this by hand, rather than by mkpasswd --
alternatively, you can run mkpasswd on each machine and collect the
results).  This'll probably be easier if all your users are domain users.
Hope this helps,
	Igor

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Brian Murphy wrote:

> I want to install cygwin on a shared network drive so
> that there is a reduced overhead in maintaining it.
> There will be multiple users creating instances of the
> cygwin shell on their Windows 2000 machines.
>
> Does anyine have an opinion on this shared
> installation whether it is a good or bad idea. Has
> anyone done something similar?
>
> Thanks,
> BM

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