From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31099 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2016 12:01:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31047 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jan 2016 12:01:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_ASCII_DIVIDERS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=computers, cygwinapps, cygwin-apps, putty X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:14 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.27] ([95.90.244.252]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MGiBd-1aSD392fAn-00DX68 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:01:10 +0100 Subject: Re: network installation problems (again) To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <56742FBC.1020806@towo.net> <56863C56.4040203@boland.nl> <5687068A.5040209@towo.net> <5687889A.4080600@boland.nl> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <5687BC07.60008@towo.net> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:01:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5687889A.4080600@boland.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:3DCGEUw6cL4=:XPwyKUSben5GcWuiZHLAgi btHs7ymrfW5zYWlhnemXf9uRecYBQi8bD81khatKcrFD0l2ZEMXzyMLpbjRxzU74mUbt2BJdG bcH7U/HbJiz0sCA492zVzhVV2cWWoQu05FFM738B1G8hgDEbbLn5kY7qDNhWw+IuaXL3JxheD zLUU8VztsAe6g5cT9rjythwXPbgfLX/TqUfHs7HmNHmFLWTxpgeMvGg0BWJqRabl4oPXpUzEn xLWvqPCPGphnDvTkso6D3sfcQKOFH6Wpg1wSSARCu4vGGjiubrh4IEJBZva9NIZczxDepeTvm zaX1iRjTsbj9ahkrGG+wObI1l1HV0XbqeVmypVFqVX6pgHzKmGq5ZD/QiA2zhb6vDEuZ/lGUa Ixq2eUp2xbJuFmAyF9wnr46AyfdS1kl6cnUIgz+k38aD5wVeslx/+nVH3VBMtwkzSfTOI3use xKKqoLqOLK2g5cFp7wqvmLMpDjIOllG4HgRIHjxr8Dx0RZqiZU9qUHEYKk/k7XIUtsno1V5+j 02SZ3wvy2O4RnHLg7Aj2jpoXxBbFZ0YBmdPno4MmOFhHGFpUCReeF9vT/vNwOtx1nILRsycIZ As2h821eW1rZY0PuO8zd+6po3kXo2ylHhpZv32ekJekg1cJoptZXxhdlkTZ8Zbrep3lsRDFfG 2ozYCgGn9yY6UKnY/kCioqBzBwQ2Su4eh1jQHRC9RkXhNcKjS0nuN4LGacLLbnm7veMtWcITS wXZXNtIIXNCKAXWl X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 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