From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22952 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2004 23:28:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22945 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2004 23:28:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web41507.mail.yahoo.com) (66.218.93.90) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 23:28:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20040304232828.80593.qmail@web41507.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.91.163.84] by web41507.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:28:28 PST Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:28:00 -0000 From: Jim Scheef Subject: Re: Cygwin/xFree from 2 users To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 List-Id: Alexander and all, I guess I wasn't clear. I'm sitting at my notebook looking at the XP login screen. If I log in using js@domainname, Xwin works fine, but fails to start when I log on using js@machinename. The machine and the Cygwin/Xfree installation are one and the same in both cases. I use the same username (js) in both cases for convenience and I was hoping that this would make it easy to use the same Cygwin home directory (/home/js) for both logins. How can I make this work? Jim --- Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jim Scheef wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > I use a notebook computer so I can carry my computing environment around. > > This is WinXP and current versions of Cygwin and xFree as of a few weeks > ago. > > > > I have several user 'accounts' that belong to various domains. Most of > these > > accounts are 'js', as in js@machinename, js@domain1.com, js@domain2.org, > etc. > > I want all of these to use the same Cygwin home directory. > > > > Cygwin and X were installed from js@domain1.com. When I'm not connected > to a > > network, I use js@machinename. Cygwin seems to work with both user > accounts > > but X will not start from js@machinename. The attached xwin.log came from > > running xinit. Trying to start kde gives an error that there is no write > > access to .ICEauthority. I believe the X problem is related to > permissions > > within /home/js. > > > > I have tried to set up permissions for both user accounts on /home/js but > I > > can't seem to make them stick. > > > > What permissions are needed? What file permissions are critical, which > mearly > > convenient? Does the setup process replace the permissions on the user's > home > > directory? How can Cygwin and X be configured for multiple users on a > > machine? and the big question - how can I configure Cygwin and X so that > I > > can use the same /home/js directory from multiple 'js' accounts? > > You can not start two xservers with the same display number (which is in > fact the > TCP/IP port used). Start the second with an additional parameter ":1". eg > XWin :1 > or xinit -- :1 > > bye > ago > -- > Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de > http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 > Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004 > http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com