Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:50:26 +0200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1esxroxurnngy.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dial-142-226.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1de * Rajiv Chopra (2004-06-25 17:10 +0200) > I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I was very > pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and get faster runtimes > than on our SUN servers at work. Are you sure of that? For instance Cygwin executables are said to run at half the speed of their native windows clones because of the Cygwin compatibility layer. > What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes on my > computer. Is it possible to set up Cygwin such that he can telnet to my machine > and run a process? Yes, sure, telnetd is in the inetutils package. But you shouldn't use telnet, use ssh. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/