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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:10:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: cygwin on a network share
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Matthias Teege wrote:

> I've installed cygwin on a fileserver to share the setup between
> different users. The users doesn't have write permissions on the network
> share. How do I "redirect" the home and/or tmp directorys to a directory
> where the user can write to?

You need to use mounts.  See "man mount" for more details.
HTH,
	Igor
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