From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: network installation problems (again)
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5687BC07.60008@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5687889A.4080600@boland.nl>
Am 02.01.2016 um 09:21 schrieb D. Boland:
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 01.01.2016 um 09:44 schrieb D. Boland:
>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am again having problems to install cygwin on a network drive.
>>>> It's in the same network I had similar problems before:
>>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-11/msg00034.html
>>>> which were then resolved after a while.
>>>> The client machines are now new, running Windows 7. Domain server
>>>> is the old one.
>>>> My description log of actions and popup errors is attached below.
>>>> There was no way to install on the network. I could install to the
>>>> C: drive and move that over to the network where it would then run.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Happy new year, y'all!
>>>
>>> You shouldn't try to install Cygwin on a network share and execute
>>> it locally. That's like installing and running Linux on a Samba share.
>>>
>>> If you want to use a single Cygwin distro on all computers in your
>>> network, you should install it on the target host, including the
>>> openssh daemon. Then on the client machines, you use Putty to log on
>>> to the host.
>> I need Cygwin on the network clients, not on a server (and this has
>> been working for years, just with occasional install problems).
>> Also (if I understand your first sentence correctly), I did not try
>> to install centrally for client use, but to install on a client for
>> that client's use, just on a network drive. And in fact that's the
>> only option on that system which is a lab network and the local (C:)
>> drives are cleared after each reboot.
>> ------
>> Thomas
>>
> So you're kind of hacking into your lab computers, right? :-) I
> noticed something in your original output:
>
> ---------------------------
> Fehler
> ---------------------------
> Directory H:\tmp does not exist, would you like me to create it?
> ---------------------------
> Ja Nein
> ---------------------------
>
> And:
>
> ---------------------------
> Cygwin Setup
> ---------------------------
> Cannot open log file L:\TGI\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing
> ---------------------------
> OK
> ---------------------------
>
> That's strange. Setup tries to install on different disks. Does the
> network share change each time you log on?
No. Install target is in L:\TGI while H:\tmp is the temp directory for
downloaded packages.
I hope they don't interfere. I can try to put both on the same drive but
I would be surprised if that makes a difference.
Thomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-18 16:09 Thomas Wolff
2016-01-01 8:48 ` D. Boland
2016-01-01 23:06 ` Thomas Wolff
2016-01-02 8:26 ` D. Boland
2016-01-02 12:01 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
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